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...story "City of Dreams" provided an authentic encounter with the new Bombay. It is hard to believe that so many things are happening there. But Bombay is booming only because the rest of India is booming. The city's dynamism, as you reported, owes nothing to the inept and corrupt local government. Business is succeeding because the people, especially the local workforce, have taken their fortunes into their own hands. Arabinda Pradhan New Delhi...
...sport of kings - the polite name for British horse [an error occurred while processing this directive] racing - has been cast into turmoil by an alleged betting fraud and the arrest of Kieren Fallon, one of its most accomplished jockeys. And to what prosecutors and investigating committees maintain is systemic corruption can be added an outsize helping of low-level deceit that tends to be marked down as "gamesmanship." One British newspaper was so amused by the underhanded dealings on display in the World Cup that it produced a series of league tables under such headings as diving, feigning injury, intimidating...
...executives will pursue damages," he said in a statement. "The thousands of former Enron employees I represented with the AFL-CIO felt terribly betrayed - not only that they had lost their jobs and benefits, but that the company and executives they believed in had turned out to be dishonest, corrupt. At the time of the guilty verdict, I think many of these people were gratified by the moral judgment on Lay's actions...
...where were the cops? Quite a few were busy taking bribes. It was no secret that crooked officers shared their illegal profits with an equally corrupt Democratic political club, Tammany Hall. But on May 6, 1895, Republican mayor William Strong appointed to the city's four-man board of police commissioners the Manhattan native and former state legislator Theodore Roosevelt. Selected at once as board president, Roosevelt eagerly embraced the mayor's mandate for reform, calling it "a man's work." Quite simply, the author of The Winning of the West aimed to clean up Dodge, even...
Roosevelt set ambitious goals: to make merit replace bribery in the system of job assignments (sergeants sometimes paid $15,000 for lucrative captaincies) and, crazy as it sounds, to compel officers to actually enforce all the laws. He scored a few successes initially, weeding out corrupt veterans. To see whether patrolmen were walking their beats, he began making the same rounds late at night and incognito--though at times in the company of a newspaper reporter. Once, Roosevelt found three bluecoats loitering outside a saloon at 2:30 a.m. "What are you men doing here?" he asked abruptly. "What...