There are other problems, mostly to do with the private lives of the spies.
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So the vacuum is filled with talk about the private lives of famous people.
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Some have incredibly open minds about what it means to conduct our private lives.
The bag of chips being your friends private lives splayed out all over their wall.
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Politicians' private lives are largely taboo, even in countries with lively tabloids such as Poland.
These people have no right to interfere in our private lives or my professional work.
If so, it means that the private lives of the mitochondria still hide some intriguing secrets.
Vuillard was best known for intimate, indoor looks at the private lives of his subjects.
To be better in our private lives, to be better friends and neighbors and coworkers and parents.
Just possibly, they do not care either about what government ministers do in their own private lives.
We would prefer it if their private lives were proper and in compliance with Turkish traditions and customs.
For two hours, I approached perfect strangers about their private lives on the street outside Harvey Nichols department store.
Her strident certainties on Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood helped to open public figures' private lives to public inspection.
Clinton declined to say whether the press should back off from efforts to obtain intrusive pictures of celebrities' private lives.
Eventually Mr Blunkett's public and private lives formed a double helix, making it hard for him to treat the two separately.
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We all know about figures who attain greatness in public life but whose private lives are a mess, repellent, or both.
Mr Blair seems to have realised that people do not care for governments telling them how to run their private lives.
They will play the glamorous, volatile ex-lovers in a story of their ill-fated 1983 revival of Noel Coward's stage play, Private Lives.
"These are allegations only and we wouldn't comment on rumour and speculation - and certainly not on people's private lives, " she said.
Between Mr. Day's stiff-upper-lip Victor and Mr. Gross's urbanely exasperated Elyot, this "Private Lives" is quite good enough to be worth seeing.
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Conversely the court's ruling is a setback to those who want tougher protection of private lives from commercial exploitation by the gutter press.
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But Ms. Cattrall's earthbound performance keeps it from taking wing, and a production of "Private Lives" that fails to soar can't help but disappoint.
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Some editors still say they will not dig into private lives.
First on their agenda is greater respect for Iranians' private lives.
When "Private Lives" opened in 1930, he was 30 and Gertrude Lawrence, his co-star, was 32, and their self-evident youth was central to the play's effect.
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The French are famously indifferent to their politicians' private lives, which are protected by strong privacy laws: affairs are tolerated, if not de rigueur, for public figures.
More is known about the private lives of artists - not least because many draw on their experiences for their work - so moral dilemmas will continue to arise.
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Intimate details of the private lives of these patients may be splashed across the front pages, but they are still owed the same duty of confidentiality by their doctors.
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