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...story, is Chen's sunniest, ostensibly simplest film. Cheng (Liu Peiqi), a poor man from the provinces, takes his son Xiaochun (Tang Yun), 13, a violin prodigy, to Beijing in hopes of promoting the boy's career. He's gifted, no doubt, but in big-city music competitions, a bribe decides the winner. Nevertheless, Xiaochun gets a good teacher--Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), a sympathetic bohemian with a Dickens-novel quota of pet cats--and befriends an effervescent girl-on-the-make named Lili (Chen Hong, who offscreen is Chen's wife...
CHOCOLATE. Often mistaken for luxury item; in fact, an indispensable tool of child rearing. Messiness/obesity factor far outstripped by efficacy as bribe...
...most damning evidence to date has come from its erstwhile CEO, Loik Le Floch-Prigent, and two top corporate lieutenants, Alfred Sirven and André Tarallo, the latter dubbed Mr. Africa. They have meticulously described how Elf kept a slush fund, overseen by Sirven, allegedly used to pay bribes via Swiss accounts to African leaders including Savimbi and Gabon President Omar Bongo, as well as to channel money to the two main French political parties. Pressed by Desplan, 47, the pugnacious presiding judge, Le Floch-Prigent described how Elf's payoffs in France first tilted toward the Gaullist party...
...diplomatic clock ran out? When did the diplomacy even begin? Threatening that war is about to start and trying to bribe nations into supporting U.S. aggression don't constitute diplomacy. Bullying is the usual name for those tactics. BARBARA BRANHAM Portland...
...generally seems like a charitable thing to do, emblematic of a country with a progressive outlook on world cooperation. Ironically, asking for the U.N.’s approval initially regarding the situation of Iraq has proven the Paul Wolfowitzes of the world correct: Better to ignore or preemptively bribe international power players instead of engage in a sham debate in front of a global hodgepodge...