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Romney countered with an ad accusing O’Brien of mismanaging state funds and capitulating to a corrupt insider culture on Beacon Hill...
...coat. After she is threatened by the Guardians of the Revolution on the street, who berate her for her sneakers and jacket, she locks herself in her bedroom and dances madly to Kids in America. But Satrapi does not neglect the darker side of human adaptation, either. As one corrupt leadership is swapped with another, the hypocrisy trickles down. A neighbor who has always had a spot on her cheek now claims she got it from a bullet at a revolutionary demonstration. Another woman who used to flit round the neighborhood in miniskirts suddenly dons a full-length chador...
...deep in debt. A few years from now, when Iraq begins to produce serious quantities of oil for export, it may be just enough to send the price down and put the Saudis in even deeper hock. For the royal family, which is walking a tightrope between its corrupt ways and an exploding population of Muslim extremists, that could spell trouble...
Dead dogs hang from the lampposts in the capital of a mythical South American country. Attached to their carcasses are literate, even ironic, signs announcing a pre-revolutionary terrorist campaign directed at the corrupt and fascist local regime. An honest, weary cop, Augustin Rejas (Javier Bardem), is assigned to investigate. In particular, he must track down "Ezequiel," in whose name the increasingly violent terrorist campaign is being prosecuted...
...WEILL, 70, CEO of financial giant Citigroup; from dealing directly with his company's research analysts about investment concerns without a company attorney present; by the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory agencies; as part of a global $1.4 billion settlement with 10 Wall Street firms accused of corrupt stock research; in Washington. The severe Citigroup stipulation, which comes on top of fines and sweeping policy changes required of all 10 banks, follows the disclosure, first reported in 1999, of Weill's efforts to persuade Citigroup analyst Jack Grubman to raise his rating of AT&T, where Weill...