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...public are yoked together. When you are polite not just to your friends and family, but to everyone with whom you come into contact, a network of trust is established in a society. Trust is the bedrock upon which social and economic exchange is built. Where trust is absent, suspicion rules; you deal only with those you know firsthand, which atomizes society and diminishes the range of human experience...
...denounced the pact. "I voted for Kostunica, but I never expected him to deal with Milosevic's cronies," said a disgusted Ljubica Zivkovic, 55, a grocery store owner from Belgrade. "I thought I'd never see their faces again." Kostunica's alliance with the SPS will also increase suspicion in the West, on which Serbia depends for aid. Kostunica's mistrust of the Hague tribunal, which he sees as an American political tool, has already caused concern, and his new political friends are only likely to increase Western worries. The European Union has already voiced its discontent...
...German who grew up after World War II, I have always regarded any glorification of the military with skepticism and suspicion. Despite knowing how much Germans owe to the Allied forces that liberated us from Nazi terror, and acknowledging that the majority of Iraqis rejoice that they are rid of Saddam Hussein because of the efforts of American and coalition troops, I wish that others would not forget that an army uses force and violence. Innocent people have always suffered in wartime, no matter what the motives of the military. ECKHARD KORFF Lippborg, Germany...
Khan is hardly the only Pakistani scientist to raise international suspicion. Shortly after 9/11, two retired nuclear experts with ties to Muslim extremists were questioned by the FBI about allegations that they had discussed developing weapons with al-Qaeda. Islamabad's current inquiry is focused on a group of Khan subordinates. The investigators tell TIME that Khan acknowledges "authorizing" some of their trips to Libya, Iran and North Korea but says he had "no idea" whether they were conducting clandestine business on their own. But Khan is widely regarded as the man with the knowledge and the authority to make...
...slow the national divorce epidemic. In 1965 the divorce rate was 2.5 per 1,000 people; it reached a high in 1979 and 1981, with 5.3 per 1,000. Today the figure hovers at about 4.0, pretty much where it has been for five years. In some quarters, the suspicion has lingered that the therapist's job is to validate a patient's complaints and act as ministers in reverse, putting couples asunder. "The idea of therapist neutrality often came down to support for breaking up," says William Doherty, director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University...