Days after declaring that he was moving on from the brewing controversy, Mr. Cain waded back in with an emphatic plea for decency from his longtime lawyer, followed by a rambling defense of his own personal integrity and a condemnation of the media.
Days after declaring he was moving on from the rapidly developing controversy, Mr. Cain waded back in with an emphatic plea for decency from his high-profile lawyer followed by a defense of his personal integrity and a condemnation of the news media.
It's a semi-police state but lacadasical: police roadblocks are positioned every few kilometres, just far enough away for decency from the contraband gasoline stalls and the hashish smokers.
It can be expressed in many colours, from discreet decency to overwhelming altruism, subtle grace to deepest tenderness.
"It represents a shameful retreat to a smaller mindset, unshackled from empathy, decency or even just intellectual engagement with complex issues," he says.
Aside from basic decency, respect for the history of Lithuania and its peoples would demand that immediate and decisive measures are taken to bring those involved to justice.
But if Santos has proved anything apart from his decency and modernity, it is that, like Brazil's ex-president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, he has the political nous to know the limits of the possible in a country where violence and elite power are still major factors in the political firmament.
He was a tall thin man, whose head with its long earlobes was austere in repose, as if it were carved out of hard ancient wood; to see him so boyishly eager was somehow compromising, like watching a tortoise bob its skinny neck out from the decency of its shell.
A uniform does not make you exempt from human decency.
Las Patronas tell a tale more radical than that of the porcupine and the bear, which is that even when governments are indecent, nobody can prevent the people from embracing decency.
