To be "between a rock and a hard place" describes the dilemma of being in a position in which one must choose between two unpleasant alternatives, without the opportunity to satisfy all the implicated parties' needs.
Assisted suicide, however, brings the added complication of implicated parties, left behind in the world of the living, burdened by the possibility that they may have acted wrongly in abetting someone's chosen death.
The Blond and the silly season were made for each other, I suppose, and their mating during this August has satisfied all implicated parties.
The latest scandal, coming ahead of parliamentary elections in April, shook the ruling party, which was already reeling under a recent series of election defeats and scandals implicating party officials and relatives and former aides of President Lee.
Following the abortive coup of August 1991, in which the CPSU was heavily implicated, the party itself was abolished.
I also received--from all over the world--images with signs of solidarity or rejection of one or the other of the parties implicated in the conflict in Gaza.
If Mr. Mandela was pained, the chairman of the commission, the retired Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, was clearly outraged at the last-minute maneuvering of the A.N.C., which was widely seen as an attempt to intimidate the commission into withholding its findings implicating the party.
He also parried the abuse-of-power allegations against him by implicating the party agency he said had ordered him to cover up the emerging scandal over Mr. Heywood's murder.
BBC Sport has attempted to put the claims made by Perumal to the parties implicated in his book, but so far they have not responded.
"We don't want to implicate the party," says Fouad Siniora, a former prime minister who leads the Hariris' block in parliament.
But a financial scandal that implicated his party has gravely dented his authority, as has a row over his attempt to change the rules on imperial succession to allow for the possibility of a female emperor.
