Word: unspoken
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Around the U.S., flabbergasted defense attorneys and their jailed clients cheered his move. Among prosecutors, however, there was an awkward pause. After all, each DNA test costs as much as $5,000. Then there's the unspoken risk: if dozens of innocents turn up, the D.A. will have indicted his shop...
Justice was supposed to emerge last summer at Camp David, when President Clinton spent more than two weeks trying to bring Oslo to fruition. Camp David, site of Egypt's 1979 peace deal with Israel, is Arab shorthand for a sellout. The Palestinians came with an old, unspoken grudge about perceived U.S. bias. They felt that the American team headed by Special Middle East Coordinator Ross had been strongly biased in favor of Israel for several years. The summit nearly collapsed on the third day, according to notes taken by the Palestinians, after Clinton submitted a draft proposal that described...
...been there. What it comes down to is that they'd like to be ministers more than they're willing to stick their necks out for the peace process. They're also not being very specific about the terms of a unity government, leaving all the areas of disagreement unspoken, to be dealt with later...
...here, as Ullmann says, "face to face with himself. I believe he's forgiving himself, doing this movie." She is not, of course, certain of that. But we have, at least, the minor miracle of this intricate, devastating work, passionately involving us in this old man's wintry, unspoken quest for grace...
...Fine, say the plan's critics. But there are plenty of secular service groups making a difference in underserved communities. Wouldn't those groups - with no unspoken or overarching purpose but to serve - be a more appropriate target for federal beneficence...