"I accept the next three months of coldness, enforced personal austerity and endless soup," one should whisper to oneself.
China has been stirred by a petition to enforce personal rights listed in the Constitution, beginning with protecting migrant workers.
Here, especially in the upper echelons of business, codes of dress and behavior are routinely enforced, personal disclosures are penalized, and formality is still the rule.
Three young legal scholars have created a sensation in Chinese intellectual circles with a modest proposal: to enforce personal rights that are guaranteed in the Constitution, starting with the protection of downtrodden migrant workers in the cities.
But that freedom ended last Monday when the Sanitation Department began enforcing "personal appearance standards," which have torn through the rank and file like a boot camp buzz-cutter since they were issued by department officials last month.
Personal and professional successes are two interdependent life goals: Personal success supports and re-enforces professional success, and professional success re-enforces personal success.
"I suggested that they should adopt and enforce personal boundaries.
Teachers say they observe the hygiene behaviour of children closely and encourage or enforce personal hygiene, e.g. hand-washing after sneezing, going to the toilet or contamination with dirt.
"I understand that being attorney general means enforcing the laws as they are written, not enforcing my personal preferences," he said in his testimony.
Yet in his confirmation hearings, he said, "I understand that being attorney general means enforcing the laws as they are written, not enforcing my personal preferences".
"I understand that being attorney general means enforcing the law as they are written, not enforcing my personal preferences," he told the committee.
