Word: suspicions
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Even so, there is now the suspicion that the government of China used Asian-American front groups to try to funnel influence money into U.S. politics. That possibility was strong enough that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright expressed her concern to China's leaders in Beijing. And it was the Asian connection that was at the heart of the D.N.C. announcement last week that it was returning another $1.5 million in campaign contributions from 77 donors, bringing to almost $3 million the amount it has given back. Three-fourths of the suspect money was brought in by three Chinese-American...
...capital. Meanwhile, residents in the south are flocking to shops to stock up on food and supplies, and several Albanians are trying to flee the country altogether. Albania has seething since mid-January, when failed pyramid schemes left thousands destitute. Defrauded investors took to the streets to protest their suspicion that government officials at least tacitly allowed the schemes to continue and perhaps even profited from them. After protests turned violent, the government declared a state of emergency Sunday evening and enforced a strict curfew, authorizing police to shoot armed rebels who offer resistance...
...person. That is a lonely little boy named Isaiah, who lives in her apartment building. One day Smilla comes home from work and finds Isaiah dead, the victim of a fall from their building?s rooftop. An accident, the police insist. A murder, her intuition tells her. This suspicion is confirmed by the increasingly hostile behavior of the authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller?is there any other kind nowadays??that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful...
...person. That is a lonely little boy named Isaiah, who lives in her apartment building. One day Smilla comes home from work and finds Isaiah dead, the victim of a fall from their building?s rooftop. An accident, the police insist. A murder, her intuition tells her. This suspicion is confirmed by the increasingly hostile behavior of the authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller?is there any other kind nowadays??that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful...
...browsers, and almost impossible for Web publishers. As for electronic mail, which, due to its design, is easier to "spoof" with anonymous messages, there are simple ways to authenticate messages to confirm their senders' identity. Internet users ought to be educated to treat any anonymous or unauthenticated mail with suspicion and caution. For those who truly take offense to anonymous or unauthenticated messages, software filtering is also easy to set up. The mailing list mentioned in the article could have been set up with a simple restriction against unauthorized submissions; the fact that the restriction was not in place implies...