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Though the police and prosecutors are in the early stages of their investigations, they have dismissed theories that Chan was a member of the Chinese Mafia or that competition for a girlfriend led to the horrible crime. The death of Stuart Tay may come down to a case of distrust and "bad blood," according to Deputy District Attorney Lewis Rosenblum. "What is clear is that Robert Chan did not like or trust Stuart Tay. Why that was so is still very unclear." But Rosenblum is less concerned with the motivation of Chan and the others than with the events that...
Several volunteers tried their luck with the addition set, but one skeptical student whose answer was disputed by the suggested response on the back of the card replied, "You've failed to convince me, actually. I've been taught to distrust what I read...
...single factor defines the new mood, it is distrust of politics as usual. Prime Minister Mulroney's approval rating has hovered around 15% for years. Now, rising disenchantment with conventional parties means that in the next national election, which must take place by November 1993, at least five parties will compete for votes, including the Western-based and business- oriented Reform Party, which gained ground on the basis of its opposition to the latest constitutional package...
...reflects the best of what we stand for and other times the worst. Thus, in the '60s, all-white juries acquitted Klansmen who had murdered civil rights workers in the South and today, inner city juries acquit Black defendants charged with murdering law enforcement officials--a trend of minority distrust of police officers that was evident in the Kahane and Rosenbaum cases...
...cynical joke is that there is only one thing in common between the feminists and conservative women in the church: they both distrust the bishops," says Ronda Chervin, the consultant on the U.S. bishop's letter. "The conservatives think the bishops have been bending before the feminists, and the feminists think the bishops have caved in to Vatican pressure." After agreeing to prepare the document in 1983, the bishops made an elaborate effort to hear out alienated women. Some 75,000 women offered written and oral testimony, and the first draft in 1988 was filled with accounts of their distress...