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...train," U.S. Marine Captain Jason Moore noted in a report earlier this year for the Corps' Command and Staff College at Quantico, Va. In part, that's because Taliban sympathizers in the Afghan military have shot and killed U.S. troops. "Intentional or not, it conveys a sense of distrust, hostility and disrespect to their hosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Left Out: How to Grow the Afghan Army | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...dissatisfaction on this issue, but each conversation comes back to the question of why students care so much. What I finally realized is that hot breakfast symbolizes much more than food. The frustration is indicative of a greater misunderstanding about the budget-cut process—and a greater distrust about what steps have been taken since hot breakfast was removed...

Author: By Andrea R. Flores | Title: Beyond Bacon and Eggs | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...critical, saying the proposal as it stood was "neither logical nor legal." Parliament members began to publicly bash the Vienna deal. One member stated there is no guarantee in the proposed deal that the West "will fulfill their commitments" in the nuclear talks and that "Iran is right to distrust them." Another member argued that the "media commotion" in the West was wrong in reporting that "Iran has submitted to the idea of ending uranium enrichment." A commentary in the conservative online news site Qods challenged President Ahmadinejad's interpretation of events: "To what extent has each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Nuke Standoff and Ahmadinejad's Woes | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...enriched nuclear fuel Iran needs for domestic use. The worry in Tehran is that, if the original IAEA proposal were agreed to, the Islamic Republic would have to send out its stockpile of uranium before receiving third-party enriched fuel. Therefore, Keyhan wrote, "in view of its historical distrust of the West, a strong guarantee for receiving the fuel for the Tehran reactor needs to be given." Given that the newspaper is a staunch supporter of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, this counter-offer would seem to have the backing of the upper echelon of the Islamic Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Nuke Standoff and Ahmadinejad's Woes | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...women also have a deep-seated distrust of the government. Prostitutes complain that they are routinely shaken down by police, who demand $50 payoffs and threaten to lock them up overnight if they don't pay. Several prostitutes were suspicious that the new circuit was part of a government plan to tax them. And none of the prostitutes interviewed said they had to pay hustlers on the streets. "I don't work for pimps. I don't work for madams. And I am not going to work for the government," says Jennifer, a heavily made-up 24-year-old pacing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Mexico City Need a Red-Light District? | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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