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...crook and people smuggler. She may have puttered around the Yung Sun restaurant and the Tak Shun variety store, but federal investigators say she also ran a global crime network that netted her more than $40 million, made her a major competitor of China's central bank, helped her corrupt foreign government officials and changed the face of New York City. For years, law enforcement called her the Mother of All Snakeheads, a leader of the species of international gangsters who specialize in the brutal trade in humans from China. And next month, after a six-year manhunt, they expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two-Faced Woman | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...that my hopeless feeling was not particular to Israel. I am working in Washington, capital of the "world's only superpower" (as one of our politicians said last week), and I wake up every morning to news listing how many people were shot the previous day. Our politicians are corrupt at all levels, and the current presidential election is between two men with both excessive money and familial ties to government...

Author: By Shira H. Fischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Small Step For Man | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

...life and love for others are the way--and the only one--to bring peace to the world. He tries to smile at every person and to see the good even in what seems bad. It is difficult to believe that smiling at all people will make politicians less corrupt or that paying attention to my breath will stop the shootings in the inner city. But receding into my bedroom and rejecting my ability to make a difference cannot do anything at all. And as I explore philosophy and history, I find that many voices, not just Buddhism, teach...

Author: By Shira H. Fischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Small Step For Man | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

Ecuador's highest court issued warrants for the instructor's arrest last week, charging that he committed unconstitutional and possibly corrupt acts by freezing Ecuador's bank accounts during the recent Latin American financial crisis...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ecuadorean IOP Fellow Accused of Corruption | 7/21/2000 | See Source »

...short but inept and corrupt tenure as Ecuador's president has embarassed the Harvard alumni community here," Mata said...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ecuadorean IOP Fellow Accused of Corruption | 7/21/2000 | See Source »

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