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...Arafat faces growing domestic pressure to reform the Palestinian Authority, dispensing with his corrupt, authoritarian, personality-cult leadership style and make his administration more democratic and accountable. That could just as easily be a blessing as a curse for American and Israeli efforts to cut deals with the Palestinians, because the median of Palestinian public opinion right now is significantly more militant than Yasser Arafat...
...peace be upon him, who applies the scent of paradise." Recalling that Abdullah had still been fasting when he died, she says, "He broke his fast with Allah." The boy's family filed a suit against the Palestinian police, but Franji has no hope of justice in Arafat's corrupt legal system. Her comfort is the scent of paradise. --With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Hebron and Aharon Klein/Tel Aviv
...story centers around the brooding title character and the complex network of relationships that cause his macabre exploits. At the outset of the musical, Sweeney emerges from a 15-year exile imposed by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted after his wife. Sweeney returns to London only to be greeted with news from Mrs. Lovett, a baker of unsavory meat pies, that the judge has raped his wife (leading her to poison herself) and taken their daughter Johanna as his ward. While Sweeney slaved “in a living hell,” Johanna has grown into a beautiful...
...Erin Brockovich, a legal secretary) bravely sacrificing their careers and their financial resources to sue evil, polluting corporations on behalf of cancer-stricken children. Naturally, we root for the families and for their plucky lawyers over the attorneys for the corporations, who are portrayed as either wily and corrupt or idiotic and corrupt. While the movies end differently, we’re meant to see that justice involves large punitive damages for the families of the sick children...
...Rubin said the impoverished nations themselves should take some responsibility. He said countries with corrupt leaders will continue to “languish without foreign...