Word: unwritten
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...constantly on the verge of civil war and invasion does not need two contending governments. But that is the dangerous scenario facing Lebanon this week. On Wednesday, members of the country's parliament are scheduled to vote on a replacement for Emile Lahoud, whose term ends midnight Friday. By unwritten agreement in this deeply sectarian nation, the President must be a Maronite Christian (the Prime Minister must be Sunni; the speaker of the assembly Shi'ite). Lahoud was an advocate of the policies of neighboring Syria, which until 2005 was the overlord of Lebanon...
...this exchange may seem a bit strange, given the competitive nature of college football. Indeed, the information traded between schools is subject to certain unwritten, but certainly inviolable, rules. Teams who will face each other never exchange staffs, and information gained from one team cannot be passed on to an opponent. For example, information would never be passed from Harvard to a Toledo opponent following a Toledo visit. And while the possibility of a meeting between Harvard and a Toledo opponent is remote, the gap between I-AA teams like Harvard and I-A schools is rapidly shrinking...
...Show Your Emotion. We all know tennis players are supposed to exhibit good manners. But when fighting Federer, it's a good idea to ditch the game's unwritten rules. "I'm talking first point, first set, Roger makes an unforced error, pump your fists and shout," says Courier. "Just to let him know you're there to win, not just to play close. Sometimes you have to rattle the cage." Like Tiger Woods in golf, Federer preys on his opponent's reverence for him. Perhaps it's no coincidence that the player who has had the most success against...
...jumped in, such as Whirlpool Corp. against Ripplewood in the Maytag contest, or Building Materials Corp. of America's attempt to bust up the Carlyle Group's buyout of ElkCorp. For PE investors deal jumping was considered a faux pas. "It has long been suspected that there is an unwritten gentleman's agreement among private-equity firms to refrain from jumping each other's deals," said Chris Young, director of M&A research at Institutional Shareholder Services, a highly regarded independent proxy-advisory firm...
...Matsui's feminist ghosts, Machida's surreal and often frankly sexual paintings-like Little Boy: Good Luck Talisman-seem to have little in common with staid 19th century forms. But Machida says artistic categories are "just brand names," so she doesn't feel as though she is violating some unwritten code. "I admire Japanese painting, but I learned from the tradition without even noticing it." And that's the point. As diverse as they are, as different as they are from their flowers-and-Mount Fuji predecessors, the neo-nihonga painters aren't divorced from Japanese tradition-they're part...