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...warned the class of "the pervasive distrust and cynicism that infect public life today," citing the gradual erosion of the public's faith in American government beginning with the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal...
...distrust and hatred between primarily Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan have exploded into war three times, twice (in 1947 and 1965) over the fate of Kashmir. The issue is no closer to peaceful resolution today than it was when the two nations were created by the British partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Kashmiris have again shaken life into the dispute with a rebellion against Indian rule that has cost nearly 600 lives so far this year. The struggle has produced not only talk of war but also an escalation of military moves on both sides of the border...
...sealed. "I walked by that room every day," says Pavlov. "I will never forget." As soon as he could read, Pavlov pored through a tome on Stalin's 1930s trials. "From my father's experience, I knew that many had been unjustly treated," says Pavlov, who dates his distrust for dictatorships from that awakening...
...this enough to rewrite history? Was Einstein a fraud or just a lousy husband? Would that we could decide. Consider the psychohistorical fun scholars could have with the implications that a woman discovered relativity -- does it have anything to do with the traditional female emphasis on relationships and distrust of male absolutes? The Einstein experts are unconvinced. At worst, they say, Einstein was a lousy husband. The fact is that we will never know; Albert and Mileva have fallen into some Pynchonesque black hole of history that claims the dead. The longer we think about them, the more uncertain everything...
...problems for accurate counting, Dominguez said, is the distrust expressed by many poor people of the bureau's motives. Although the information in the census is only avalilable to sworn census officers for 73 years, by law, the poor don't believe that the information is confidential...