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Actually the problem with the structure probably has more to do with a fourth reason longstanding neighborhood mistrust over Harvard's steady encroachment through its money and power, into the city. But while this kind of worry is often warranted for many of the town gown issues which divide Harvard and Cambridge, in this case, it is way off base...
This alone, however, will not be enough to handle the far more serious underlying problem. No oversight arrangement will work, nor will any program to rebuild America's covert capabilities work, until a way can be found to dissipate the corrosive mistrust and suspicion that has built up between Casey's CIA and Congress...
...pieces sound more like editorials: a reporter's interpretive rebuttal often appears higher in the story than the official statement he or she is rebutting, especially in stories about the Reagan Administration's policy in Central America. The Post is often arrogant, and is so inclined to mistrust anyone who challenges a reporter's accuracy that for months its editors ignored widespread doubts about the authenticity of Feature Writer Janet Cooke's profile of "Jimmy," a purported eight-year-old heroin addict; two days after the article was awarded a 1981 Pulitzer Prize, the Post belatedly...
...affair, and it is a sad one, for no one now knows whom to trust. The only security is within our own group, and this makes a mockery of the ideal of a diverse, interacting community, within which all learn from each other. The message of separatism and mistrust which we have all heard in the past week will, with luck, force our community to address these problems, and for this we should perhaps thank the Pi for bringing the existing tensions into the open, and allowing them to be discussed. If it were up to me, however, this would...
...Cambridge police force has recently come under attack from local families for harassing several Black youths. Sociologists have attributed the commonplace harassment to a deep-rooted mistrust of Blacks, stemming from strong ethnic identifications and recent racial tensions. Why should Harvard police officers be considered immune to these forces...