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...reporters and cameramen flocked to the steps of the New Hampshire State House, there was an air of incredulity. Gary Hart is a professional; he has run for President before; he should know the taboos and totems of the trade. Didn't he understand that in the unwritten rules of political engagement there is a codicil that bars from the presidency any married man who has made a fool of himself in public with a 29-year-old model? What about his September promise not to hover around the other six candidates like "some Dickens figure"? A presidential campaign demands...
...public stage as Washington's emissary to Italy, the first American woman to be named ambassador to a major power. As usual, Luce made a spectacular entrance and exit: in her first major speech, just a couple of weeks before the Italian general election, she broke nearly every unwritten rule by eschewing diplomatic platitudes in favor of a pointed warning about the "grave consequences" for voters if they became "unhappy victims of totalitarianism of the right or of the left." Four years later, she resigned for reasons of health: dust laced with lead arsenate had been flaking off the painted...
...revelation eventually resulted in Bork's famous 1971 Indiana Law Journal article repudiating his prior attempts to find unwritten protections in the Constitution. In its place was Bork's version of what academics call interpretivism, or intentionalism. Unless the Constitution clearly specifies the protection of a core value, Bork wrote, "there is no principled way to prefer any claimed human value to any other." Only the "original intent" of the Constitution's framers should be used by judges in finding constitutionally protected values, he declared...
...creditor governments. Since then, the group has evolved into one of the financial world's most important "non-institutions," as one representative called it. The club has no official charter, no staff of its own or even a permanent headquarters. It works by a set of unwritten rules and owes much of its significance to the refined negotiating skills and political savoir faire of a succession of French Finance Ministry officials who, in the words of former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann, "have rolled over a vast amount of Third World debt with a minimum of fuss...
...interim loan from the International Monetary Fund in Washington, an organization to which club members also belong. Then, to convince the club that they are truly unable to pay back outstanding loans, petitioners must do a virtual striptease, disclosing their most sensitive financial data. "One of the unwritten rules is that the confidentiality of a debtor country's economic and financial statistics is sacrosanct," Trichet explains...