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...climate, many developed countries have changed their legislation to crack down on bribery. One hundred and forty governments have now signed a 2003 United Nations convention against corruption. There are currently more than 100 foreign bribery investigations under way worldwide, according to Angel Gurría, the o.e.c.d.'s secretary-general. One of the cases with the highest profile involves the huge German firm Siemens, which is under investigation for allegedly paying bribes to win telecommunications contracts. The company said recently that, on checking its books for the past seven years, it has found $550 million in payments it could...
Saving an Angel...
Muslims and Christians buried you together. On your gravestone there sits a marble angel, her eyes turned toward the sky, as if awaiting an explanation, or else, consolation. But that solace won't come from above. It will come from Turkey, from the land you loved...
...Sanghera is certainly no angel. Though underage, she flees Derby with her older, lower-caste boyfriend Jassey, to her family's shame. The young couple settles in nearby Leeds, where Jassey, a trained engineer, sells cheap watches in a market stall to support them. Sanghera rewards his good-humored steadiness with an adulterous affair and a divorce. Then she ditches her lover, finds another husband and leaves him as well, temporarily losing custody of a child...
...made a few more film appearances, the last one indelible: as Richard Dreyfuss' adviser from Heaven in Always. It was a visitation from the guardian angel of our finest instincts...