And the staff went to lengths to keep the matter secret.
Akari is shocked to learn that Jun has filed for divorce and blames her for keeping the matter secret.
And his adoptive father, with whom he was very close, acceded to his wife's wishes to keep the matter secret.
If it is true that Pakistani intelligence was helpful in locating bin Laden, and kept that matter secret, then we can begin to sort out our fraught relationship with that troubled country on a more equitable, trusting basis.
A former F.B.I. director's investigation found that Mr. Paterno — who was fired in November and died in January — played a role in protecting Mr. Sandusky and keeping the matter secret.
Mr. Von Essen said he had never promised to keep the matter secret and said the mistake was significant enough to warrant further exposure, especially since those involved were senior supervisors who earn $120,000 a year.
Think of Chichikov travelling around Russia buying up "dead souls" (Gogol warned a correspondent to keep the novel's subject matter secret, afraid of giving away his invention), or of Bellow's Herzog writing his mental letters to great thinkers and public figures.
The e-mails from Mr. Rich's lawyers and business associates reflect intense financial and political activity aimed at enabling Mr. Rich's main Washington lawyer, Jack Quinn, to advance his request for the pardon and to keep the matter secret from federal prosecutors.
He said the decision to keep the matter secret was not made to protect his brother but because word of the embezzlement would have put a "weapon" into the hands of enemies of Acorn, a liberal group that is a frequent target of conservatives who object to its often strident advocacy on behalf of low- and moderate-income families and workers.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 — Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail traffic between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret and allowed Mr. Foley to remain head of a Congressional caucus on children's issues, Republican lawmakers said Saturday.
Readers called for the players to be banned from playing for Australia as well as the sacking of the ACB officials who had kept the matter secret; some said that the players should never be appointed to leadership roles in the cricket community.
