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...peculiar relationship with the press, draws much the same conclusion. Rejecting common notions of the venerable fourth estate operating on people’s behalf to check government power, the White House views the media as a self-serving special interest. While there are certainly valid reasons to distrust the press—especially its contemporary profit-driven variations—the Bush White House seems to believe that an ideal press should serve as a mouthpiece for its pre-packaged sound bites, and that anything less is a profiteering scheme...
...plenty of roadkill in the rearview mirror. The Conservatives' new leader, Michael Howard, had been widely praised for restoring some discipline and purpose to a party that hasn't managed to mount an effective opposition since Labour came to power in 1997. Trying to capitalize on polls showing rising distrust of Blair, Howard spent weeks suggesting the Prime Minister lied about his role in "outing" Kelly's name to journalists - only to find that Hutton's judgment wholly undercut him. He seemed so stunned that he couldn't revise his line of attack last week, and ended up looking churlish...
Both Rabbit and Harbour look at events from the grassroots up: at how a cynical distrust of politicians and big business can be harnessed into people power instead of hatred. And both - written and directed by women - suggest that the real battles were not fought in the male domains of football fields or the waterfront but in the home. Certainly Harbour is more interested in how an industrial dispute can divide a family than in its effect on a country. Having fled his wife Vi (Melissa Jaffer) six years before, Sandy returns to Millers Point to find a changed order...
...enduring anguish, distrust and rancor among thousands of Kashmiri families such as Khan's should temper the optimism inspired by last week's agreement between India and Pakistan to seek peace. Still, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf struck a conciliatory pose, and both sides made significant concessions. India gave up its insistence that all jihadi incursions from Pakistan into Indian-administered Kashmir end before any talks could start, and Pakistan vowed its territory would no longer serve as a terrorist base. For some, the portents have never been so good. "You could not have...
This reluctance is particularly acute among first-years, who arrive from high school with a latent distrust of authority that, compounded by signals from University officials, drives drinking underground. First-years are told during orientation week that absolutely no alcohol is permitted in the Yard dorms, that proctors will report any instances of underage drinking to the Freshman Dean’s Office and that prefects must avoid their prefectees like the plague anywhere alcohol is served. “Because of the perception of strict enforcement of drinking rules,” says a former assistant dean of freshmen...