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...reverence for the President kept Watergate and other corruption out of the campaign," he said, "and only now that insiders are getting caught are we going to find out that this is the most corrupt administration in our history...
Animal Boat, by William Donnelly and directed by Heather McNamara, concerns Schabato (Kevin LaVelle), a press secretary for a large Enron-like chemical and petroleum company. Schabato relates an increasingly absurd series of diasasters that have befallen the corporation—corrupt executives, oil spills and chemical spills—before revealing his dissatisfaction with his career and his college ambition to become a writer of children’s songs. The sketch’s highlight is LaVelle’s performance of the title song—Donnelly may well have a career as a children?...
...Bangladeshis live in an overwhelmingly corrupt feudal state, then the knights errant of the system are widely believed to be the nation's policemen. According to a survey conducted by TI's Bangladesh branch, 84% of all respondents who had interacted with the police said they encountered corruption when dealing with them. When asked about this finding, Dhaka police commissioner Ashraful Huda doesn't deny that corruption exists in the force, but says, "We take severe punitive measures against any policeman found guilty of corruption." Though ordinary Bangladeshis have little faith in their police, they also believe the cops...
...libraries. It runs an extensive distribution network for the needy. Just as important, the men of Hamas, from top to bottom, have won a reputation for scrupulous honesty. Dr. Ziad Abu Amr, an independent member of the Palestinian parliament, says that Hamas' image as "clean"--in contrast to the corrupt Authority--as well as its ability to "fill in the gaps left by the Authority's ineffectiveness," have won it considerable backing, even from many who do not share its extremist positions. "It's not just altruistic," he adds. "Hamas knows how to use this source of power to build...
...feds do, though. They know Massino's influence is as big as his girth. For five years, they have painstakingly constructed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) case against Massino. A windowless room in the FBI's lower-Manhattan office block is filled to the ceiling with dusty files. Here, agents from the Bonanno squad (known in the gumshoe world as C-10) pore over surveillance photos, audio recordings and bank records detailing Massino's alleged three-decade career in crime...