Word: suspicion
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...also chairs Response International, which helps war victims in countries like Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon. In 2002, the charity received a grant from the Memorial Fund to support land-mine clearance in Pakistan. "Some of the charity workers have to go where literacy rates are low and suspicion of strangers is high," says Morton. "They carry pictures of Diana with them, and everywhere they go, she is recognized as a humanitarian. Diana is like a passport that allows our workers into these villages so they can do their jobs." The market may have put a value on every aspect...
Some students, faculty, and administrators believe that black people are subject to disproportionate suspicion, monitoring, and punishment—not only in America generally, where the fact is well-known, but also in the heart of educated, progressive Harvard. Although the feeling is by no means new, the Harvard campus has been reluctant or even unwilling to address this issue, even when events like last month’s “Quad incident” remind many of how far Harvard...
...Evidence of Iranian sleeper cells in the U.S. is as thin as that of an Iranian hand in the JFK plot. In the mid-'80s there was a suspicion that Lebanese Hizballah, on Iranian orders, was trying to establish cells in the U.S., particularly in the Detroit area. But no cell was found. Some terrorist analysts still believe that Iran tried to kill William Rogers, the commander of the U.S.S. Vincennes, when a pipe bomb went off under his minivan in 1989. The Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian airliner over the Gulf in 1988, and the attack on Rogers...
...Still more surprising was the suspicion directed at the HCWC for fulfilling our secondary mission of providing comfortable, friendly, social and meeting space. The year’s activities—over 400 meetings and events in our space in less than 240 days of operation—confirms that we have much to offer the community in this respect. We will continue to counter the specious idea that we can’t be both welcoming and weighty by cheerfully and confidently being both...
...Larry is always advising people. Anyone who will be a leading candidate will want to get his ideas,” Zeckhauser says. “I know he’s talking to candidates, but...my suspicion is that he’s not firmly committed to one person or another...