Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Slavic world, as evidence that the Eastern Orthodox Church faces a crusade from the West for the domination of Eastern souls," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. Despite being grasped in Bucharest, the pontiff's hand of friendship may not be enough to assuage the hostility and suspicion with which the Vatican is viewed in most of the 15 autonomous national denominations of the 300 million-member church...
Perhaps as a result, Washington is determined to squelch rising suspicion that ground troops might well be needed to defeat Milosevic. The Pentagon, the White House and NATO spokesmen spent much of the three-day summit insisting their sustained bombardment of Yugoslavia was paying off. Officials rolled out numbers to tick off progress: after 3,000 target strikes, 16 early-warning radars were gone, half of Serbia's MiG-29s destroyed, two oil refineries eliminated, 25% of stored fuel wiped out, all four vital rail and road links to Kosovo damaged. Never mind that 3 of every 4 bombs were...
Bouchez and Regnier won a joint prize at Cannes for their roles, and their performances have that improvised-looking-but-probably-took-30-takes-each -time-to-get quality. They are particularly effective at moments both when their characters send out tentative care-feelers, latent with trust hopefully overriding suspicion and when they eventually turn on one another. Colin, as Marie's squeeze, Chris, plays a very believable asshole...
Often only a little skepticism, a little suspicion proves enough, but all too frequently blissful innocence rules alone. What Internet user can avoid confronting the harsh possibilities implicit in programs like Finger and Ping? Who uses e-mail without the electronic equivalent of drawbridges, a portcullis, some halberdiers? Lately, the answer seems well-nigh everyone. Too many Harvard students trust, too few know Melville's The Confidence Man, the twisted tale of a masquerader already physically close to his victims, poised to ping...
...Often only a little skepticism, a little suspicion proves enough, but all too frequently blissful innocence rules alone. What Internet user can avoid confronting the harsh possibilities implicit in programs like Finger and Ping? Who uses e-mail without the electronic equivalent of drawbridges, a portcullis, some halberdiers? Lately, the answer seems well-nigh everyone. Too many Harvard students trust, too few know Melville's The Confidence Man, the twisted tale of a masquerader already physically close to his victims, poised to ping...