In common with that character, Mr. Havel the playwright stoically avoided despair, and in doing so compelled his audience into a compassionate complicity.
Earlier this month William Hague, the foreign secretary, said there would be "an inquiry of some form" into allegations of complicity in torture, but did not give any further details.
Todd claims that he doesn't, and thus that there is an important distinction between complicity that undermines standing and complicity that doesn't.
That Arroyo was granted bail after eight months in detention even though she remains a flight risk, and so close to a verdict on her husband's complicity in her alleged crimes, does not bode well for President Aquino's efforts to clean up the Philippine judiciary.
Her complicity in suppressing her composing career does seem to us today truly dreadful.
Tom Porteous, the London director of Human Rights Watch, said: "Allegations of UK complicity in torture and rendition have done huge damage to the UK's reputation around the world.
Books demand participatory complicity in a way that TV doesn't, and like vampires, the monsters and giants of children's stories cannot enter without being invited over the threshold.
Only Nellie (Dolores Hart), working at the snack bar, notices his complicity in the theft, but she does not turn him in.
The devil idea is supposed to exonerate God from complicity in evil, and it could do that in ancient Persian dualism, where the God of good and the God of evil are equally powerful.
In addition to the 9th Circuit's opinion today, Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote separately to focus on the court's own complicity in the case (though he does not mention the secret order).
