The issue of what aspects of academic research should be public – and what private – lies at the heart of each of these debates.
Just the costs for an English-speaking school, which are private, lie between $5000 and $11,000 per year.
But I refuse to accept the "sexuality is private" lie any longer, and I refuse to accept Hardy's outrage at being asked about his sexuality, especially under the guise of privacy.
In the face of the Hungarian danger, Berengar took this development one step further and localized military defense; after 900 he issued large numbers of grants to private persons, lay and ecclesiastical, of rights to build and fortify castles.
In one square, Sizemore, an actor known for playing hardboiled military men in such movies as "Black Hawk Down" and "Saving Private Ryan," lay half conscious in his bed, detoxing from heroin, crystal meth, benzodiazepines and marijuana.
French police officers investigating the bombing of the car of France's only Muslim prefect have detained a boyfriend of his ex-wife, suggesting that a private grudge lay behind the crime.
The intervention was tailored to local circumstances through involvement of the whole local community, from schools to homes for the elderly, public and private organisations, lay opinion leaders, politicians, voluntary organisations, industrial entrepreneurs and tradesmen.
It's hard to imagine any greater disconnect between public good and private profit: the interest of private prisons lies not in the obvious social good of having the minimum necessary number of inmates but in having as many as possible, housed as cheaply as possible.
For years, more than 2,000 private clamping companies have waged a war against drivers parking illegally on private land, lying in wait in areas known for their lack of approved parking areas, immobilizing offending vehicles, then demanding hundreds of dollars in cash to release them.
Didion's candour about these things was welcome, for in bereavement the public and private struggle to be reconciled: between mourning as public fact and mourning as private experience lies a gulf that Didion, as a writer, was able to navigate.
