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...Often, unnamed sources seek to advance some personal agenda. Sometimes they tell lies and lend extra credence to falsehood by peddling it as top-secret truth. While Adams' abrupt withdrawal, at the end of a weekend during which he had raised $130,000 for his campaign, seemed like a tacit admission of guilt, he insisted that in his case the allegations -- which range from uninvited fondling of women to drugging their drinks, undressing them and purportedly raping one -- had been "created out of whole cloth." His reaction on reading the stories: "That's not me." He said he quit...
...administration's tacit acceptance of Aristide's ouster conveys a discouraging message to those who hope to reinstate the fledgling democracy of Haiti. The plan agreed to in Washington last week is only a token gesture which will have no effect in restoring political and personal liberty to Haiti as long as the country's military establishment opposes Aristide's return...
...commissions at 5%, thus adding an instant 1% to the value of every home in America and, at the same time, making real estate sales -- which produce nothing -- a little less attractive relative to teaching, which is where we really want to attract our best people. There's already tacit "price-fixing" among real estate agents -- the standard 6% commission -- so this would just fix the price a little lower. With home prices having consistently outstripped inflation for decades, until recently, real estate commissions were outstripping inflation too. Meanwhile, pay for most other lines of work, like teaching, barely kept...
...cast members, from Dublin's Abbey Theater, are amazingly fresh and spontaneous in roles that half of them have been playing since April 1990, when the play premiered in Ireland. Yet the performances also have the delicacy and nuance that comes from long consideration. They suggest all the tacit tolerance, the willful blindness, that makes family life possible, and also the tragic inevitability that even inside a household there will be competition, and some survivors will prove fitter than others...
That much Bush and Gorbachev acknowledge. But they're also engaged in a tacit conspiracy to eliminate as many nuclear weapons as possible from parts of the U.S.S.R. that want to be independent countries...