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This is not a new idea. As the historian Richard Hofstadter wrote, when Congress debated the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890, its leaders shared "an awareness of the economic foundations of politics. In this respect, the Sherman Act was simply another manifestation of an enduring American suspicion of concentrated power." For Senator John Sherman the antitrust law was an important means of "maintaining freedom." The concentrated power of trusts amounted to "a kingly prerogative," and he argued, "If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation and sale...
...last year's Pakistani incursion onto the Indian side of the cease-fire line in the disputed territory of Kashmir marked something of a shift, in that the U.S. came down hard on its traditional ally and insisted that Pakistan withdraw. "Even then," says Rahman, "New Delhi's historical suspicion of American motives remains. India is riled by the fact that the U.S. won't treat it as a responsible nuclear power, and it deeply resents being viewed in the same category as Pakistan...
...legally stop and question anyone who runs away from a cop and exhibits "nervous, evasive behavior." The case prompting the decision involved a Chicago man who ran after seeing police in an area saturated with drug dealers. Police took off after him, claiming his flight helped to establish "reasonable suspicion" of his involvement in a recent or impending criminal act - and was therefore covered under the legal parameters established in a 1968 Court ruling...
...Bach, Mozart and Schubert. In his preteens he had a brief, intense religious experience, going so far as to chide his assimilated family for eating pork. But this fervor burned itself out, replaced, after he began exploring introductory science texts and his "holy" little geometry book, by a lifelong suspicion of all authority...
...forgive: even parents who lost their beloved children; even kids who won't ever walk again, or speak clearly, or grow old together with a sister who died on the school lawn. But other survivors are still on a journey, through dark places of anger and suspicion, aimed at a government they fear wants to cover up the misjudgments of police; at a school that wants to shift blame; at the killers' parents, who have stated their regrets in written statements issued through their lawyers but who still aren't saying much and who surely, surely had to know something...