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...virus is cosmopolitan; in more recent times, stupidity infected the Chinese effort to bribe a sitting Democratic President with $300,000--the equivalent of entering the most expensive restaurant in New York and slipping the maitre d' a quarter for a good table...
BENAZIR BHUTTO Ex-leader of Pakistan gets five years in prison for corruption. She forgot to bribe the judge
...logic is a little shaky--just because someone is available to be bribed doesn't mean you bribe them--but the facts seem unassailable. I.O.C. executive Marc Hodler, a Swiss lawyer who has lately been acting as the organization's conscience, alleged last month that five to eight of his colleagues had solicited bribes from potential host cities. Hodler then accused the previous winning cities of Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney of corruption--a charge officials in all three cities deny. (A leader of Anchorage's bid effort revealed to the Denver Post that in 1992 and 1994 his committee...
...people swap and bribe for apartments depending on their place in line," Zuckerman says...
...file also contains a few shockers. One of the newly released FBI memoranda from 1955 contains allegations that Sinatra, the future Ronald Reagan confidante, was a member of the Communist Party. According to another, the singer tried to bribe his way out of the draft, and claimed he was neurotic in his psychiatric evaluation...