Word: coded
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...have an idea." She has an idea too of the field-marshalry of directing a movie. "You must learn to lead, to be a benevolent king. You try to communicate your vision and monitor those who don't get it. I feel safe there. I can be vulnerable. The code is, they'll catch you if you fall down. I have camaraderie with these people. It's like going through a war together...
...certainly do. Marshall said so in McCullough v. Maryland. He said that if the framers of the Constitution had tried to anticipate every conceivable problem that would arise and put something in the text to deal with it, it would have had the prolixity of a legal code. And of course the circumstances would change, and you then would have to change the code, as all codes are changed, and it wouldn't be permanent. By definition, it couldn't be permanent...
Last week Cairncross came clean. "I was made one of the Five during the war," he told the London paper the Mail on Sunday. While working at Britain's code and cipher school, he provided the Soviets with decoded messages that helped them defeat the Germans at Kursk in 1943. Later in the war, while serving in MI6, Britain's secret intelligence service, he told the Soviets about Allied plans for the future of Yugoslavia. Reflecting on his wartime misdeeds, he says, "I hope this will finally put an end to the 'Fifth Man' mystery...
Even more provocative is a new area of research that combines the techniques of in vitro fertilization with the latest advances in genetic screening. Abnormalities like sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis are present in the genetic code from the moment of conception. Since embryos in their earliest stages are fairly forgiving -- they can lose a cell or two without impairing their subsequent development -- it is theoretically possible to remove a cell from, say, a 16-cell embryo, test it for a suspected defect, and get the answer before that embryo is inserted into the uterus for implantation...
...notion that men should not display their emotions in public, and most specifically that they should never shed tears, was enshrined during the 19th century in the Spartan code of English public schools, which popularized the doctrine of the stiff upper lip, and was articulated by many writers, from early Victorian Charles Kingsley ("Men must work, and women must weep") to late Victorian "Mr. Dooley" ("Among men . . . wet eye manes dhry heart...