But in China, there's an unspoken rule that Chinese leaders should step out of the public spotlight when they step down from office.

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"There's sort of this thing at Georgetown, this sort of unspoken rule that you don't exactly take girls out on dates, " he says.

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She slipped a ten into my hand, which was the unspoken rule worked out by the women every time I drove them, they tipped the same amount.

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The other worry is the unspoken rule.

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The fact that Ben Kuchera quoted Totilo in the first place may break some fuzzy, golden (and often unspoken) rule of gaming journalism, especially since it cast Totilo in a negative light.

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