Word: distruster
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...Such distrust runs both ways and is getting deeper. Unless the U.S., its allies and Iran can find a way to make diplomacy work, the whispers of blockades and minesweepers in the Persian Gulf may soon be drowned out by the cries of war. And if the U.S. has learned anything over the past five years, it's that war in the Middle East rarely goes according to plan...
...Still, the ambulance affair - locally dubbed the ?bloodsuckers scandal? - may have a significant effect on October's elections for President, Congress and 27 state governors. With more than 100 of the legislature's 513 deputies implicated in the scandal and further revelations emerging almost daily, distrust of politicians has reached record levels. But even if many voters now believe that whomever they choose will be corrupt, they can't simply stay away from the polls, because voting is compulsory under Brazil's constitution. That's why campaigns aimed at convincing people to spoil their ballots are gathering pace. "There...
...reality New Orleans leaders should be talking about. In a TIME poll of 1,000 Americans taken this month, 56% said they did not think all of New Orleans should be rebuilt if it might flood again. But in New Orleans, a city cut through with racial distrust and anger over the Corps' faulty levees, the same conversation is laced with suspicion. There is enough high ground in New Orleans for the city to relocate the entire pre-Katrina population more safely. The mostly African-American Lower Ninth Ward could still exist; it would just need to be smaller...
...notion that is demonstrably untrue; after most disasters, including Katrina, the crime rate goes down. Ironically, 66% of those surveyed were also confident that if they stayed at home, they would eventually be rescued--a faith hardly justified by the Katrina experience. Ours is a strange culture of irrational distrust--buoyed by irrational optimism...
...South Korea during the Korean War and were once famously said to be "as close as lips and teeth." But their longtime alliance has become increasingly strained as China modernized its economy and prospered while the North remained isolated and stagnant. "China and the D.P.R.K. have enormous mutual distrust in spite of the fact that they have an alliance on paper," says Michael Green, who was senior director for Asian affairs for the Bush White House's National Security Council and met with Chinese officials to talk about nuclear proliferation issues in 2004 and 2005. One of Beijing's concerns...