Word: distrust
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During his tenure at Harvard Law School (HLS), Ely served as the school’s first chair in constitutional law and wrote his most influential book, Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review...
...tend the wounded, sometimes burnishing Chiang's image with her social poise. It was Mei-ling's great and abiding gift to remain equally at home with the silvery pleasantries of the social world and with the adamantine realities of the political. That powerful combination, fired by an implacable distrust of communism, enabled her to remain a central figure in Chiang's government even after the Nationalists were driven to Taiwan when the Communists triumphed in 1949. Upon the 1975 death of her husband, who in 1978 was succeeded as President by her stepson Chiang Ching-kuo, Mei-ling returned...
...can’t blame Moore. For the first time in my life, I too am strongly considering voting with my head, not with my heart. I’m considering voting for a guy (Clark) who I distrust personally (is it just me, or does it seem a little bit strange and unrealistic for a life-long Republican to turn into a progressive overnight?), think is too weak on almost every issue, and who, at the moment, doesn’t even seem politically competent enough to carry out a campaign, let alone run a nation...
...People clearly have some distrust for Harvard…but to say that’s the long-standing feeling of everybody is hard to say,” she says. “I’m just hoping that we all can come up with a solution that’s going to be one that’s not necessarily against Harvard but good for the community...
Wysoker—a Harvard graduate—says that distrust runs deep...