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...That's where the originality and bravery of this film lies. It grows beyond a simple Pinocchio parable to see that people are not all good or bad, that the young man who saves one life can easily corrupt another. Radu is not Anakin Skywalker or Darth Vader. He's capable, as we all are, of being both...
...criticism of King Gyanendra's seizure of power in February and complaints from politicians who were overthrown, but the current situation demands that we support our King. The media have been listening to the gripes of the politicians who in the past 14 years have given us only a corrupt society. The Nepalis are happy with the King. Name Withheld by Request Sanischare, Nepal...
...There are two thoracic surgeons for chest wounds, the most common kind of injury in bomb blasts, but the hospital lacks the equipment needed to perform actual surgery. Pleas for funds and tools have been ignored by an Iraqi health ministry that doctors say is underfunded, mismanaged and corrupt. "There are days when we don't even have enough sutures," Emad says with a hollow laugh...
...economists have called this phenomenon “the natural resource endowment paradox,” which holds that developing nations with the greatest endowments of natural resources frequently develop more slowly and unsuccessfully than similar nations with less natural wealth. These are also the countries with the most corrupt government and the least civil liberties. There are a number of theories as to why this is so, but the consequence is clear: with the exception of Norway, almost every oil-rich country is “shady” in some...
There has been no evidence that Street, 61, himself is corrupt, but federal prosecutors say the mayor's close friend and fund raiser, Ron White, partially took control of city contracting and turned the process into a naked shakedown for donations to Street's 2003 re-election campaign. White died before going to trial, but former city treasurer Cory Kemp, a member of Street's administration, and four other defendants await a jury's verdict. The scandals have turned Street into a lame duck a year early. "The city is in a kind of suspended animation as long...