Why would the White House entrust such a sensitive position to someone with Livingstone's experience?

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From his correspondence it seems his religious beliefs never reached a fixed position, but he was sensitive to the extent to which his ideas could upset others.

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But certainly the fact that the U.S. had spoken out so strongly against this and that the Iraq government had taken a very harsh position must have affected Turkey because they are sensitive to these things.

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"I am in an extremely sensitive and difficult position and I conveyed as much in a recent newspaper interview, " he wrote at the time.

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But even a partial privatisation of the Post Office would be very sensitive, because of its extraordinary position in the nation's psyche.

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While they would, no doubt, staunchly defend their right to spend time with whomever they wish, one would think that a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land might obligate those who hold this vaunted position to be supremely sensitive to the appearance of impartiality.

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"Given his prior access, his expertise as a counter-intelligence specialist, and his clear willingness to betray his position of high trust, Hanssen poses a clear and present danger that he will compromise a additional information of a sensitive and classified nature, " prosecutors said in documents submitted to the court.

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