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...years ago you told us you didn't trust the Chinese mainland leadership. How do you feel now? I think we are developing mutual trust, gradually. I think China's leaders are interested in having this kind of interaction with Taiwan. After all, they don't want an unstable international environment. They don't want...
...offensive military operations after it had agreed to a ceasefire. The fact that he used the word reports four times, however, seemed to suggest that the White House lacked independent confirmation of what was happening on the ground in Georgia and - perhaps more significantly - that it didn't entirely trust what it was being told by its Georgian ally...
...tell, faith in expert opinion is how medical students, residents and even full-blown docs do much of their learning - mostly just trusting a few great doctors who teach. I know enough math to know that neither my colleagues nor I really know statistics. Not one orthopedist nor one neurosurgeon in my acquaintance really understands the math used in statistical papers. They learn by faith in somebody else's statistics, by trust in the reputation of an individual, or journal or university...
...truly understand. And there is always a point in decision-making at which reason fails (funny enough, this was actually proven, mathematically, by the 25-year-old logician Kurt Godel). Ultimately, without absolute evidence, decisions must still be made - the inescapable truth is that in the end, we all trust one expert or another...
...schools both for the homeless and for immigrants, has received endorsements from a number of environmentalists and prominent local politicians. But he faces two tough opponents: Joan Fitz-Gerald, who has been in the Colorado state senate since 2000, and Will Shafroth, former executive director of the Colorado Conservation Trust, who has been endorsed by the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. In one of the most liberal districts in the state, the campaign has focused primarily on the economy, Iraq, the environment and education. [Full disclosure: the writer attended college with Polis...