The notion that a promise is a promise is born of the very worthy goals of building character and integrity in young people, infusing trust into personal and professional relationships, and generally encouraging people to hold up their end of a bargain. But as countless wedding vows and campaign rhetoric prove, a promise isn't always so simple and is sometimes better broken.

Most legal contracts have a clause built in to cover circumstances of force majeure — "superior or ov ...

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