There is very fragile trust in the health systems," she said.
This would further alienate the already fragile trust of opposition groups and instigate a dangerous collapse of civil society.
To Jerrold L. Jacobs, the current chairman of the commission, he and his colleagues have more than held up their end of of this fragile trust.
This sentiment, which pollsters say is widespread, shows just how fragile trust in politicians is right now, said Yiannis Tsarmougelis, an economics professor at the University of the Aegean who is a longtime Pasok activist.
The theme of the brooch episode, as Montgomery wrote it, was the fragile trust between foster parent and child — and she dramatized it powerfully, and more effectively, with nothing but a shawl and a picnic.
When that fragile trust is betrayed, resulting in the ruining of thousands of fellow citizens' lives, the breach then becomes an attack on America from within, not metaphorically but in fact.
And given how badly the fragile trust between the two sides has been ruptured in the last 16 days, the meeting is bound to be a tense exercise in breaking down intransigent positions.
But if the attacks are intended to fray the fragile trust between Iraqis and those who have come to help them, interviews with about a dozen Iraqis who work with Americans suggest that they are not succeeding.
"A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times PBSBS, Monday).
What he "uses to legitimize himself as president threatens the fragile trust that legitimizes his government," she says.
