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HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION: A student is assigned a paper on Machiavelli's indirect government. The student turns in a paper with the following thesis: "Machiavelli's indirect government laid the groundwork for a current system of patronizing rule." However, as the professor reads past the thesis, he discovers that this student provides no evidence to support his claim. Instead he says: "Machiavelli's indirect government laid the groundwork for a current system of patronizing rule because I believe that is the truth...
...Truth and Reconciliation Committee could not make a single finding of me being involved in direct or indirect authorization of acts of atrocities," he said...
Willoughby's path to becoming a food writer was indirect. Until 1989, he worked for the Mass. State Department of Public Health. In 1986, he helped found a free clinic for HIV/AIDS patients. Out of a desire to make his patients' stay more comfortable, he learned to cook, developing a unique style of home-cooked food...
...Israel of settlements and the Lebanon war. For Palestinians, he's a symbol of the slaughter that befell them at the hands of Israel's Lebanese Christian militia allies in the Sabra and Shatila refugee area near Beirut. The official government report found that Sharon as Defense Minister had "indirect responsibility" for the massacres, and that event remains an essential part of the Arab vision of him.* "For us," says Ziad Abu Amr, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Gaza, "he could never be anything except a murderer and criminal...
...could crack wise about the city in which their institution of lower learning is located, but that would do an indirect disservice to the University of New Haven, which should not be lumped with such a dismal city and a dismal university...