Word: suspicions
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...fact is, final clubs are selfish. They have the opportunity to contribute positively to Harvard society, yet they squander it because of an uneasy suspicion that exclusivity is the only thing that makes them desirable. Secretly, members of secret societies have inferiority complexes...
Forty criminal convictions have already been reversed, and hundreds more are targeted for immediate review. Public defenders predict upwards of 4,000 cases could be affected. So far, 20 officers have been relieved of their duties, two others fired and scores more placed under suspicion...
...been accused of using the INS to have antipolice witnesses deported. They allegedly worked from a list of 10,000 Latinos they believed to be deportable because of supposed gang ties. Latino leaders have charged that the list is so long it amounts to placing a whole community under suspicion...
...Loeb Ex is a dark, black space and A World Without History feels like perpetual night; it is crowded with guilt, suspicion and bleak hope. The title itself refers to the wishful thought that personal histories could be forgotten, uttered midway through the play. It could just as well have been titled, "a world without guilt," except that the word history evokes the epic complications of the plot...
There's always been a strong suspicion in popular culture--think Chinatown or L.A. Confidential--that Los Angeles cops were quietly up to no good, and there have been some dark real-life incidents, like the police beating of Rodney King. But L.A. is embroiled in its biggest police scandal ever, one that makes Joseph Wambaugh read like tepid tea. Authorities have identified 40 people who were wrongly convicted, and public defenders are reviewing 4,000 more cases. The cops "are just a gang with the law on their side," says Gerardo ("Clever") Lopez, a former gang member. "People...