Word: incommunicado
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...publicize them—a sin whether by omission or intention. The increasing proliferation of administrators and committees (which take away valuable energy from teaching and research) is perhaps a case of too many cooks. But worse still is that each cook was given a different utensil and put incommunicado in a separate room. Few faculty I have spoken with object to serving on committees when their tasks are meaningful; but when it becomes obvious that the administration hopes only for committee members to rubber-stamp their decisions, the experience becomes frustrating and deeply insulting...
...Ching and the CASS academics were not the only detainees to make headlines. Police passed to the prosecutor's office last week the investigation into Zhao Yan, a Beijing researcher for the New York Times who has been held incommunicado since September. Zhao is under investigation for both fraud and leaking state secrets, but his lawyer has not yet seen details of the police reports. In April, Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets to foreign media. (What was leaked and to whom has not been made public?those details...
...internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse at Guantánamo Bay.” Such negligence on Newsweek’s part is undoubtedly regrettable and unacceptable. However, to fault the publication for spreading anti-American sentiment with its false claims of unseemly behavior towards those held incommunicado is ludicrous...
Keeping in touch with Kerry and the other members of the band has been difficult because of busy schedules. However, Rand and Prouty have been incommunicado ever since the media broke news of Kerry’s past rock ‘n’ roll life early this year. The two old high school friends, apart from remastering their old album, recorded a new political CD in Nashville entitled Electras for Kerry...
...Sometimes I get embarrassed to say ‘you will be held incommunicado,’” he says...