Word: suspicions
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Visits to the Arts and Crafts Clubhouse (complete with lapidary studio), the Aerobics and Sports Clubhouse (which puts the MAC to shame) and the Theatre Clubhouse confirmed our suspicion that this enclosed community is an alternative universe that takes leisure seriously. It looked like it would get boring in under a month...
This is okay, since I'm living in the fashion time-warp better known as college. But while I sit impervious to style in my saddle oxfords and argyle socks, I am struck by a sinking suspicion that leads me to squirm over the static nature of my wardrobe. For unlike those of us born in the Carter administration, when the high school kids of the new millennium begin to strut their stuff, they won't be doing so in L.L. Bean flannel...
...ongoing mayhem in the region may be rooted in oil politics, says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "There is suspicion that elements in the Russian security forces have given support to attacks on Shevardnadze," says Meier. Part of the reason might be that Western oil companies plan to route an Azerbaijan-Turkey oil pipeline through Georgia rather than Russia. "Russian interests would like to have some control over the pipeline, and Shevardnadze is regarded as a guarantor of Western interests in the region...
...abysmal state. Lyndon Johnson championed the Great Society. Thirty years later, we're still trying to sort out the welfare system while our inner cities spiral into decay. As for the Vietnam War, student activism helped bring about an end to that. But that activism also entrenched a vitriolic suspicion of patriotism that still pervades college campuses across the country...
...wary approach to University administrators continues today. "We regard the administration with a high level of suspicion, which I think is really healthy," MacMillan says...