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Some of the best sports teams are tighter than brothers: on the field, the players read one another's every move, push one another to work harder and trust in their teammates, win or lose. Off the field they apply the same principles in the pursuit of fun. The party-loving Duke University lacrosse players--known, like the school's other teams, as the Blue Devils--ranked as high as No. 2 in the country this season. They share a bond that might have carried them to a national championship; instead, it has put their faces on WANTED posters...
Taylor does not trust any of them. "Peacekeeping?" he scoffs. "We've arrested Guinean soldiers here in Liberia. How can they come to keep the peace? We've captured Nigerian weapons from Doe's soldiers. How can you bring a jaguar into the house and say he has come to make the peace? ECOWAS is going to make this another Vietnam -- a war that never ends...
Research thus far identifies trust, socializing, admiration, kinship, and ability (believing members of other groups are intelligent and capable) as factors contributing to one’s “liking” another group. Today’s students who display allophilia are tomorrow’s world leaders who will take their love of other groups and pass...
...regularly comes in the bottom half of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, tied with Moldova and Mali at 88th out of 158 countries last year. This January, in its Mood of the Nation issue, the weekly newsmagazine India Today found less than half of those surveyed expressed any trust in their MPs. So low is India's opinion of its political leaders, in fact, that a new college, the M.I.T. School of Government, opened last September in the central city of Pune with the aim of producing a bright new generation of Indian politicians. But until they can deliver...
...beginning to sound "airy and out of touch." But Bush has always been that way. It's just finally sinking in that something has gone very wrong. Bush has made mistake after mistake without ever offering an explanation or holding anyone accountable. This is the man we are trusting with our security? He is in denial while the rest of us look on aghast at his incompetence. I hope that all those who voted to re-elect him realize their mistake. Sue Brown West Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. Bush's political antenna isn't broken; it is tuned to the interests...