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...drifted for a few years. At one point she tried to join the police force in Accra and passed the initial selection process easily. But after acing her exams, the senior officer refused to let her start training, apparently because she didn't have the money for a bribe. "If I had been there in Accra, I could have contacted the big man," says Kwame, who was traveling a lot at the time. "These days, when you pass the exam but don't get in, you can challenge that. But in those days, you were afraid...
...witnesses to keep the case "a secret within the church," as the letter said--despite the efforts of Skehan, who had allegedly sent Christmas cards to church secretaries with $1,500 each and an oily thank-you for not cooperating with diocese investigators. The secretaries refused the supposed bribe and are now prosecutor's witnesses. That's the kind of lay resolve that Hamel believes will give the church "a better chance of dealing more effectively with this crisis" than it did with the one that so badly tarnished it five years...
...former executive director of the CIA; on fraud and other charges surrounding a contract for bottled water for CIA officers in Iraq; in connection with the corruption probe that sent ex-Congressman Randy Cunningham to prison last year; in San Diego. Wilkes was separately charged with conspiring to bribe Cunningham to win deals...
...staff says his plan would reach just 3 million to 5 million of the 47 million uninsured. If that's what this White House calls "bold," it's hard to know what "inadequate" would look like. Moreover, there's a real risk that Bush's deduction could effectively bribe healthier workers to flee employer group plans for the individual-insurance market, where cheaper coverage tailored to their health status would leave more cash in their pockets. This could unravel the larger risk pools that keep premiums lower for everyone...
...Sacred Games Vikram Chandra Sartaj Singh, the hero of Vikram Chandra's 900-page novel, is a different kind of Bombay policeman. Not so different that he won't take a bribe-an entirely honest cop in Chandra's Bombay would be a freak of nature-but different enough to feel uneasy when doing so. Good things happen in Bombay to those who are different, and one day Singh gets the break of a lifetime: a tip-off about the location of Ganesh Gaitonde, India's most-wanted gangster. By the time Singh gets to him, though, Gaitonde is dead...