He has presided over several delicate inquiries, but none so delicate as the task he completed Wednesday night: presiding over the formal admonishment of Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader and one of the most powerful Republicans in Washington, for the second time in a week.
And if there were times when I could and did forget myself, then being visibly different meant racist taunts, or more delicate inquiries of "But where are you really from?" would always alert me to the ambivalence of my social identity: culturally invisible but hyper-visible nevertheless.
A veteran Central Intelligence Agency field operative has charged that before Sept. 11 the agency had largely been out of the spy business for years, not hiring new agents and avoiding delicate inquiries for fear of embarrassing itself, other nations or the White House.
The secret police arrive and make less than delicate inquiries of Magda, John's mother (or is it her mother? the libretto has it both ways) and much is made of the sickly nature of the Sorel infant (foreshadowing!) So Magda heads off to the consulate where, like the beginning of Casablanca, she waits.
A person with knowledge of the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate nature of the inquiry, said the suspect was James Weatherup, an assistant editor at The News of the World who has also worked as a reporter and news editor there.
At the opening lecture on Thursday, Francis A. Macdonald, the Harvard geologist who helped curate the new gallery, will explain how Arctic melting has allowed scientific exploration even as it has opened new sources of fuel, and will weigh the pros and cons of geological inquiry in delicate areas.
This study further suggests that lack of appropriately trained staff inhibited inquiry about delicate questions and discussing sensitive health issues with migrants as reported in another study (28).
The inquiry is particularly delicate because until late last year, Hu Haifeng, the son of President Hu Jintao, ran the scanner company.
Mr. McCabe is likely to sidestep more delicate questions about the Russia inquiry from Democrats pressing him for information to keep the investigation dominant in the news.
