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...straight people allowed to say "faggot"? Are white people allowed to say "nigger"? Generally no. Our unwritten speech codes require that those words be used only by gays and blacks, respectively (black gays can say both). Which is just as it should be: minorities can reappropriate slurs if it empowers them or even if it just humors them - I think it's funny when fellow gays sarcastically say "Hey faggot" to me. But it wouldn't be so funny if, say, my heterosexual boss said it. Sorry, straight people: you don't get to say "faggot." (I can still...
...unwritten rule: each president gets one foreign policy doctrine. James Monroe's was defense of the Americas. Harry S Truman's was containment. And George W. Bush's--spelled out after the defeat of the Taliban in 2002--was pre-emptive war to defeat terrorism and spread democracy...
...tenants. If a long-term tenant has wanted to stay they do everything they can to help him stay,” he says.“They are actively looking for small, locally-operated businesses to come into stores when they have them available.” THE UNWRITTEN PACTThere’s an “unwritten pact” between the University and the community that retailers will be allowed to use the ground-floor space in Harvard-owned buildings, according to Pebble Gifford, the vice president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF), a volunteer organization...
...hockey, fights are not only acceptable, but arguably the most revered parts of the game. They are governed by a unique, unwritten etiquette that keeps the bout gentlemanly—no gloves, jersey over the head, that kind of thing...
...think the U.S. presidential selection process is too complicated and at times dysfunctional, get a load of the U.N.'s. The unwritten rules of the game say no candidate may come from one of the five nations with a permanent seat on the Security Council--so no American, British, French, Russian or Chinese contenders. Yet to win the Secretary-General's post, a candidate must have the backing of all five countries. The U.N. has an unofficial system of regional rotation, so it is all but certain that its next leader will come from Asia. Which brings us to another...