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Yanukovych, 54, has made no secret of his pro-Moscow leanings. Just as important, Ukraine's business and political élites have flourished in one of the world's most corrupt economies, and they trust that he won't rock the boat. If Yanukovych seems a throwback to the Soviet era, Yushchenko, 50, wants to bring Ukraine into the free-market age. In opposition, he turned Our Ukraine into a powerful bloc that's threatening to undo the current ruling clan's lock on power...
...jacket and tie, he's a black man managing a luxury hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, a decade ago, making friends and doing favors across racial and national boundaries. He knows when an obsequious word or a proffered bottle of single-malt Scotch will do him the most good with corrupt local officialdom. And he is doing his best to ignore the rising tensions between his country's ruling Hutu tribe (of which he is a member) and the rebellious Tutsi...
...moderate who now represents the radical wing of Fatah, has much greater support among ordinary Palestinians than the more moderate--and more aloof--Abbas does. At 45, Barghouti also has the backing of younger Fatah leaders who are pressing for longtime Arafat confidants like Abbas, 69, to reform the corrupt regime. Barghouti's candidacy threatens to produce a major split in Fatah that might lead to violence if an election loser challenges the results...
Like Almodovar’s last film, Talk to Her, Bad Education is morally complicated and visually explicit. It is also cinematically literate, beautiful and strikingly well-conceived. As one of the few important filmmakers today who refuses to corrupt or simplify his own work, Almodovar has dropped another much-needed gem into the limited pool of challenging new cinema...
...success story began to unravel in Feb. 2003 with the publication of a bestselling book, The Hidden Face of Le Monde, by veteran journalists Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen. Their allegations were sensational: a corrupt relationship with the head of the police union; gifts to Colombani for giving media training to a mayor; a pattern of blatantly favoring certain politicians (such as hapless 1995 presidential candidate Edouard Balladur). In June Le Monde agreed not to proceed with libel lawsuits against the authors, who in turn agreed not to republish their book, but the damage was done. The paper...