Torture and the Politics of Ambiguity

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

Education in an Uncertain World

Opacity has grown with complexity.

Basically you believe in complexity, but not in ambiguity.

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

But complexity is not the only reason for obscurity.

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

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

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

Foreign officials and observers also seemed more tolerant toward Baby Doc, in areas such as human rights monitoring, and foreign countries were more generous to him with economic assistance.

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.

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

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

Syria may pay a heavy price for that ambiguity.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 ambiguities inherent in certain types of unilateral act often made it difficult to distinguish between a political act and a legal act.

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.

Six years later, while on pilgrimage to Hebron, Baibars promulgated an edict forbidding Christians and Jews from entering the sanctuary, and the climate became less tolerant of Jews and Christians than it had been under the prior Ayyubid rule.

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.

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

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.

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

The solution, as always with monetary policy, is a clear, consistent, and unambiguous communication strategy.

For those who benefit from the politics of ambiguity, international law is an indispensable prop.

In view of the elements of uncertainty in the sources, it is more than usually pertinent to refer to considerations of policy.

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

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.

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.