Word: distrustful
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...mutual distrust between India and Pakistan is very great, and it may well be in the end impossible to reach a genuine détente without some third-party intervention as a mediator. The essential thing is to demilitarize the area. While you've got 900,000 Indian troops and 700,000 Pakistani troops plus the jihadis in the area, it becomes impossible to see anything that one could recognize as peace showing up there...
...rich as The Autobiography of Malcolm X or Makes Me Wanna Holler, two important works by black men who, like 50, learned that it’s not possible to serve your purpose in life when you are stuck behind bars. 50 is filled with the same rage and distrust of authority as were Malcolm X and Nathan McCall. But he is hesitant to write what he feels, which hinders his ability to feel what he writes. (Interestingly, this is not the case with his lyrics...
...Shinsuke Fujimoto, 37, would recognize that sentiment. Founder and CEO of Digital Hollywood, a school for computer-graphic designers and programmers, Fujimoto demonstrates a sure-handed independence and confidence in his own abilities, not to mention a distrust of conventional routes of Japanese salaryman success. Fujimoto set up his company 10 years ago, and Digital Hollywood has since grown into a $30 million business, with a network of nine schools across Japan. Fujimoto says the keys to success are clear-cut: "It's all about will, timing and the idea," he says...
...certainly is no super-parent: his children, the detached teenager Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and the snarky Rachel (Dakota Fanning) both seem to resent and distrust him, even as airplanes fall from the sky and neighbors get vaporized with lasers. Apparently it’s hard to appease the wrath of bratty children. “War of the Worlds” ultimately becomes the story of the reconciliation between parent and children; everything else is just trappings...
...Distrust of government pronouncements has helped create an almost constant panic among the tens of thousands of Colombians still huddled at the base of the smoldering volcano. Twice since the initial mudslide they have been sent scampering to high ground after false reports of new eruptions. "Is it going to explode again? Please tell me the truth," implored Norma Duque de Ramirez, a former telephone worker in the mountain city of Manizales, where an international team of volcanologists have gathered to study Nevado del Ruiz. The scientists were far from reassuring. "This volcano is potentially at the beginning of activity...