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Even as he tries to push forward with his grand vision of democratic reform, a malign undertow draws Wahid back into the corrupt old ways of Suharto and his cronies. Financial scandals have been creeping closer to his inner circle. Now his former masseur is being investigated for allegedly embezzling $4.7 million from the state rice-distribution agency...
...would dispute that Wahid is genuinely committed to democracy and free and fair markets. And nobody accuses him of being personally corrupt. But, says Muhaimin Iskandar, head of the National Awakening Party, Wahid's faction in the parliament, "from the beginning, management has been his problem...
...Shaft" came at a time when black America was almost invisible in Hollywood. A black hero was unthinkable, let alone one so contemptuous of the pretensions of white society. It promoted this radical morality in which a black man could only do the right thing by stepping outside a corrupt and racist justice system - it was the quintessential Black Panther movie. Of course a lot's changed since then. But instead of challenging prevailing attitudes, this "Shaft" seemed was trying to appease the prevailing political correctness by having good and bad whites, blacks and Latinos. It's a crossover "Shaft...
...Mahoney '00, McLain's vice chair, will also be taking a two-year McKinsey post. As with his classmate, the decades of debate characterizing federal politics as corrupt, inefficient or just plain evil has taken its toll...
After his first year at The Times, Meislin switched jobs, becoming a reporter trainee. He showed early promise. In some of his earliest journalism, he discovered that money intended for a school lunch program was, in fact, being diverted by corrupt administrators...