Torture and the Politics of Ambiguity

Education in an Uncertain World

Opacity has grown with complexity.

Basically you believe in complexity, but not in ambiguity.

In the end, the politics of ambiguity may fail Rumsfeld all those high resolution photographs from Abu Ghraib are anything but ambiguous.

What are the ingredients? Imagination, playfulness, novelty, curiosity, mystery.

But complexity is not the only reason for obscurity.

Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop.

We would therefore like to avoid conceptual ambiguity in the Protocol.

Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.

Syria may pay a heavy price for that ambiguity.

Moreover, DNA has acquired a certain mystique in popular culture.

The reasons behind moving the prisoners between the two locations remain unclear.

The Treaty is especially ambiguous where it uses the language of constitutions.

The role of GFPs tends to be ambiguous and ill defined.

There was general understanding that ambiguities could provide a possible basis or excuse for manipulation by the powerful.

This is a strong charge, especially given the huge uncertainties that central banks and treasury officials have been facing.

Understanding the intentions of Iran s leaders is not as difficult or as ambiguous as some believe.

Writers have, over several generations, insisted on the uncertainties which beset the topic.

Moreover, there are ambiguities in the trend lines for stock holding periods.

It is never a good idea to replace something with vagueness.

Part of the legend is almost invariably the mystery surrounding the circumstances of the leader s death.

Because of the ambiguity surrounding Louis Napoleon's political positions, his agenda as president was very much in doubt.

To take the mystery out of this, let me say that the way we look at it is as follows.

That is the ambiguity in my life that really disturbed me, and led me to write a book called Saving Fish From Drowning.

Both Jiang and Hu have faithfully followed Deng's dictum to Hide capacity and nourish obscurity.

VIENNA For those who still wondered who Vladimir Putin is, the mystery is over.

But myths are a collective and mysterious construction. Otherwise, they would be for sale.

But post modernism has itself been generated by technology, with which it has a deeply ambiguous relationship.

Of course, the situation is unclear in view of Uruguay's reaction in not accepting the donation and instead treating it as a commercial transaction.

In face of the prevailing level of uncertainty and contradiction in the sources of the law, certain prophylactic measures are necessary.

The mystery, until recently, was why economic performance had been so weak. There were four types of explanations.

But there are caveats that make this forward guidance ambiguous and therefore uninformative.

For starters, we are again moving into what Henry Kissinger called the realm of constructive ambiguity.

In doing so, remember that the vagueness versus specificity dilemma also applies to economic issues.

During this period, the prisons of ISIS were as much of a mystery as the Bermuda Triangle, surrounded by speculation, suspense and secrecy.

An attacker's first step is usually information gathering this step is delayed by security through obscurity.

the effective functioning of the Government has continued to be affected by a lack of clarity regarding the delegation of powers from the President to the Prime Minister and the ministers .

Moreover, apart from (c), the generalizations involved tend to be pre legal and full of ambiguity.

Now this is a very un TED like thing to do, but let's kick off the afternoon with a message from a mystery sponsor.

The future is inherently uncertain, and therefore investor psychology is fickle.

The situation has highlighted the ambiguity surrounding the EU budget s role in European integration.

Israel s reluctance to rattle its nuclear saber, even in dire circumstances, adds to the mystery.

The ambiguity within this idea leads to a great deal of variation in terms of how cities carry out their attempts to become sustainable.

Ahmadinejad may bluster, but there is usually considerable ambiguity and calculation behind his outbursts.