The sagacious historian and politician Arturo Jauretche liked to say, It's not about changing our collar it's about ceasing to be a dog.

Torture and the Politics of Ambiguity

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

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.

Education in an Uncertain World

Opacity has grown with complexity.

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

Basically you believe in complexity, but not in ambiguity.

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 .

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

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

At the time, these were sold over the counter in cumbersome glass bottles or impractical paper wraps in most European countries.

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

But complexity is not the only reason for obscurity.

It has completed 130 kilometres, about 70 per cent, of the construction of the separation wall that surrounds the Holy City, which will contain almost 20 settlements, isolating 250,000 Palestinians from their natural geographic and demographic environment.

Such Westerners are now often just as enamored of China s paternalistic and equally opaque and impenetrable political system.

But the friction of normal life usually creates ambiguities that cannot be fully met in advance.

Furthermore, 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.

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

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

This is due to some ambiguity as to both the positive scope of application of the latter and the explicit exclusions from its scope.

In such an uncertain situation, the challenge to PA economic policymakers of preparing for statehood could not be greater.

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.

I also didn't have the careless friend, who was driving up and down the streets 24 hours a day the type your father would warn you from to teach me how to drive. To learn, I went in the morning to the Driving School and registered for the morning programme.

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

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As a result, megabanks senior managers are not pressed to remove layers of opaqueness that shield their risk taking from effective scrutiny.

Demystifying 68 also exposes the pretense of those who would blame it for all the wrongs of today s world.

He shared the concern of other Committee members over the vague definitions contained in the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2002 and their possible consequences.

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.

Nonetheless, there are still ambiguities about the missile crisis that make it difficult to attribute the outcome entirely to the nuclear component.

And that led to Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, to say, All the great thinkers of humanity have left happiness in the vague so that they could define each of them could define their own terms.

Of course, the inner workings of Kim s regime are shrouded in mystery, not only to the outside world, but also to most of North Korea s government.

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

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.

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

Ever since he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the Peoples Republic of China four years ago, Hu Jintao has remained infuriatingly wooden faced and opaque.

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