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...custody, may soon be on his way back home to face trial for his membership of al Qaeda. The paper notes that Australia may have trouble coming up with laws under which to charge Hicks. "One problem was that when Mr. Hicks went to Afghanistan, the Taliban had the tacit support of the U.S. Government...
According to Bonner, Lee and Fernandez broke a “tacit agreement” the two campaigns had made not to report each other’s infractions...
...were a surprise, that he and the student are much alike, the moment has no meaning. It is obvious that they are both rather tedious whiners. In later scenes, which are supposed to convey a shift of power and cause the audience to repeatedly reconsider its views about tacit sexual intimidation, the play appears wildly uneven because of the lack of initial conflict...
What’s most pernicious about these “free” downloads is their tacit promises of protection. Take the RealPlayer shareware, a media streaming program so offensively retrograde that a million monkeys with a million keyboards with a million 1’s and 0’s could never devise it. During one illicit encounter with the RealPlayer.exe file brought on by a misbegotten attempt to watch “Bootylicious: In concert,” I responsibly unchecked all the boxes that would have signed me up for daily newsletters, news updates, update letters...
...need not hunt down every lone terrorist in order to make the world safe, because these men cannot act alone. We have spoken much of Osama bin Laden, but the Taliban is his sponsor in sin. Without the Taliban’s tacit support, bin Laden would have been incapacitated long ago. Even the world’s most nefarious networks cannot convert their hatred into mass murder unless a government of sinister scoundrels buries its head in the sand and ignores the training camps and financial operations required to do what al Qaeda has done...