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Nagin dismisses the criticism as the dying gasps of New Orleans' Old Guard. "We've moved away from the corrupt politics of the past," he told TIME recently. "I think those who are bashing me and questioning my leadership skills are usually unhappy with the new way of doing things." Nagin has been doing things differently for quite some time. Raised poor in New Orleans, he attended Alabama's Tuskegee University on a baseball scholarship, earned an M.B.A. from Tulane University and worked his way up the ranks to vice president at cable giant Cox Communications by turning around...
...mayor must navigate that tricky terrain in the midst of a new scandal in New Orleans' notoriously corrupt and ineffectual police department. It was bad enough that some officers were accused of deserting their posts and looting Cadillacs during Katrina, but now two officers stand accused of beating a retired African-American schoolteacher who they claim was drunk and resisting arrest (he denies it) in the reopened French Quarter--a brutal attack that was caught on video and left Nagin's welcome mat looking all the more tattered. The officers have pleaded not guilty to charges of battery. Nagin...
...China's rapid economic development. But this is only a partial explanation. Rather than poverty, it is the farmers' sense of powerlessness that sows the seeds of discontent. The central government has promised reforms that would give farmers more control over their lives. Those promises have been broken by corrupt local officials bent on keeping power and wealth for themselves...
...Banglie was once a hero in Beijing. A 34-year-old farmer from the rice-basket province of Hubei, he was praised last year by the Communist Party-owned China Youth Daily for leading a movement to impeach a village chief who residents say was corrupt. The paper told Lu's tale: launching a five-day hunger strike, getting roughed up by thugs and investigating political conditions in other villages across China. When his campaign finally forced his village chief to resign in 2003, the paper said, Lu emerged as "the front runner of peasant grassroots democracy...
Directed by D.J. Caruso Universal Pictures 2.5 Stars Al Pacino in manic mode is arguably the best on-screen energizer working today. Redoing his schtick as a possibly corrupt businessman (see “The Devil’s Advocate”) seems like a sure bet. But even Pacino in hyper-speed, and co-star Matthew McConaughey, is not enough to save D.J. Caruso’s (“Taking Lives”) latest film, “Two for the Money,” a mediocre spin on the sports drama genre. McConaughey plays Brandon Lane...