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...There is a bizarre social class—an elitist bias among American voters who really distrust the poor boys who make good. The only presidents to have been impeached are the poorest Presidents. People who have gone to the best schools have been trusted,” he says...
...divided the city into a grid?10,000 households per sector?and opened a tiny office with one officer in each sector. Neighborhood officers respond not just to emergencies but to people locked out of their apartments and senile residents who get lost?a way of breaking down the distrust the public feels toward the police. "People have even called asking to have breakfast delivered," says a district chief in Shanghai. Although Shanghai's program predates Zhou, he plans at the national meeting later this year to order cities across the country to set up similar systems, says an officer...
...rebellion last September that plunged the country into civil war. Since January, a French-brokered peace accord has left the nation divided between government and rebel-controlled zones. A would-be reconciliation government composed of members from both factions has become bogged down in mutual hostility and distrust. Ironically, Gbagbo supporters who have long suspected France of colluding with rebels applauded the Paris arrests, while government members drawn from insurgents' ranks denounced the French as Gbagbo "puppets" who framed Coulibaly. The increased tension comes just two weeks after the resignation of President Charles Taylor in neighboring Liberia quelled civil...
...Perhaps even worse is the impact on regional cooperation, a critical component in the war on terror that had just begun to flower after years of institutional inertia and international distrust. "Who is going to trust intelligence or anything else with the Filipinos now?" asks Abuza. Evidence has mounted recently that JI is continuing to plan bomb attacks from Thailand to Indonesia. Now the organization's master bombmaker is back, rested and ready to roll. The region might pay in lives for the negligence of one Manila prison...
...insight and ambition, with a sense of ideological clarity and purpose not often seen in American society. Yet her book barely scratches the surface of her feelings. There is a hint of dissembling in its triteness, a challenge to credibility in its sketchy description of events and an unspoken distrust of the public. Perhaps Senator Clinton did not intend for us to learn much about her life, or there may be things she is reluctant to admit to the public or herself. DANIEL J. HANNEMAN Maplewood, Minn...