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Most of all, however, a 65 mph speed limit would translate into an unwritten 75 limit without beefed-up enforcement measures. Yet for a lot less money than that would cost, the government can keep the unofficial speed limit at 65 by leaving the official limit where...
Indeed it was. Yet spying is an old and nasty game among rival nations. The key issue in the sad and still developing Marine espionage scandal was not whether the Soviets had broken some unwritten rule of civilized snooping or what American agents had done to them. A more relevant question was just why American Marines and State Department officials had permitted the Soviets to compromise U.S. security so thoroughly -- and so easily. On that point the many investigations were very much in order...
They say the camps are gone, swallowed up by time, destalinization and the cultural amnesia of a history still unwritten. There are no longer any huts, gates, guard towers, or shuffling columns of prisoners on their way to another day of killing slave labor. There are no memorials, no cemeteries dedicated to Stalin's victims. Some of the camp names that dot the pages of prisoner memoirs are ordinary towns now: Shturmovoy, Elgen, Yagodnoye, Mylga, Magadan itself. "When you go to Magadan and stand upon the Kolyma highway," a Muscovite advised, "you must look down at the earth beneath your...
Each sport comes equipped with a written and unwritten rule book. Some of the unwritten rules may include wearing a coat and tie on the road or playing cleanly and not swearing on the field. Sometimes athletes are informed of the unwritten rules at the beginning of the season. But more often they're expected to know them...
...circumstance was purely a misunderstanding," Barresi added. "Even though I didn't do it on purpose, I had a bad feeling about going against the unwritten rule...