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...former advisor that he had lied over the so-called children-overboard affair during the 2001 election campaign, and briefly caught up in an embarrassing public debate over whether he should submit to a lie-detector test over the issue. Labor believed the election should be fought on voter distrust of the political veteran, but Howard skillfully turned their jibes around. The election would indeed be fought on the question of trust, he said - not in one or another account of past events, but in his government's ability to keep the nation secure and protect its record economic expansion...
Perhaps it was this success that was the undoing of the poll-stacking attempt, or perhaps people have learned to distrust online polls—at any rate, media mentions of the obviously broken data were few and far between. Still, it’s worth noting that (unless the debates really were grossly uneven) the Democrats managed to mobilize some half a million people over the course of half an hour. Eight years ago, at least, that number would have been staggering. Of course, all that people had to do to join in was to click a check...
...however, the dual approach has failed to stop the bloodshed. Nidir Waba, one of the most senior and moderate Muslim leaders in the south, says that despite some improvements, the hard line taken by the military together with memories of the April 28 massacre create a deep distrust. "There is no sincerity," says Nidir. "There is a big gap between what is promised and what's implemented. If the government does live up to what it has promised, the violence and tension will be lessened." But so long as the ideology of global jihad continues to gain recruits...
...Native American short story called “The Return.” It’s about a man who leaves his village for years, only to return and find that the warmth and sharing and openness of his old home has been replaced with jealousy, greed and distrust. In desperation, he wanders the town shouting and asking what has happened to his village. But the people do not hear him. They dismiss him as a crazy old man; children taunt...
...keep the M.I.L.F. off its list of terrorist organizations. Murad is now the man her government must deal with, and he says he's "hopeful but not too optimistic." He wants the government to adopt "a new formula" that will break the cycle of failed negotiations and mutual distrust between the two sides. A similar peace accord with the oldest Islamic separatist group in the Philippines, the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), was signed in 1996, and that group was given administration of much of Mindanao and a healthy budget. But the M.I.L.F.'s refusal to go along kept peace...