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...broader relationship right now remains one of tension, unease, wariness and mutual distrust. It has clearly entered a very cool period. It was striking last week that China was barely mentioned in President Bush?s speech on missile defense, while the Russians were made out to be almost a partner in the initiative. Now the administration is sending one of its most senior defense officials to Russia to discuss the proposals - it's even sending the State Department's Number Two, Richard Armitage, to India for discussions over missile defense - but a far lower-ranking career diplomat is being sent...
Chalk it up to my own cynicism, or perhaps to my general distrust of the sugar-coated drivel that emerges daily from the Beltway and its environs, but I would not like the government to have access to anymore knowledge about me than is absolutely necessary. When someone in Washington authoritatively announces that they need more personal information, I want a good explanation why. I do not want the government to know what books I buy, what kind of music I listen to, who my friends are or where I buy my clothes. I do not want them to know...
...readers may feel that Rosovsky’s “banality,” as he termed it, indeed reflects how they have felt here: ignored, undervalued and perhaps prisoner of one of Rosovsky’s creations, the Core program. No need to feel a mere lurking distrust from your local adviser or senior tutor or dean; one in the past had the temerity (or foolhardiness) necessary to say it outright. But to use it that way it really just an excuse: the seven principles Rosovsky proposes in his book are actually quite good insights...
...They never received a report. No officer has been fired following the 15 fatalities since 1995, although some investigations are ongoing. And the city has resisted attempts to change the insular, 1,020-person department's policy of refusing to hire chiefs from outside. "There has been a material distrust between the police and the black community, even though the force has become increasingly black," says Scott Johnson, former city manager and current Cincinnati resident. "The problem is, there are no blacks in the upper echelons of the force." To change the police culture, says the Rev. Damon Lynch...
...Distrust of government officials permeates India. And any inadvertent act or omission is viewed with suspicion, even though incompetence is often the culprit. When the census began on February 9, President K.R. Narayanan was the first to step up. As a member of the scheduled castes, he is required to name the caste community he belongs to, which is based in the southern state of Kerala. It was not on the census list. Embarrassed officials suggested he skip that column. He refused. India's census commissioner Jayant Kumar Banthia says that separate scheduled caste lists are compiled for each state...