Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major strategic value; Panama is also one of the U.S.'s prime listening posts in the region and home to the 10,000-man U.S. Southern Command. To some, the U.S.'s difficulties in Panama are reminiscent of Iran. Having struck another Faustian bargain with a ruthless and corrupt dictator, the U.S. again finds itself turning against a longtime client with no viable democratic replacement in the wings...
First published in the Los Angeles Times, the reports contended that Meese "did nothing" after receiving the memo. The Times also stated that the alleged note had become the "primary focus" of an investigation by Independent Counsel James McKay into possible criminal activity by Meese. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act forbids any U.S. citizen or firm from bribing a foreign official for business purposes...
Ellmann's Wilde is neither the corrupt seducer his enemies reviled nor the Orphic martyr enshrined by his champions. He emerges instead as a celebrant of mixed motives, a pioneer in the uncharted terrain of what would much later, and inelegantly, be termed the identity crisis. Except that, for Wilde, there was no crisis. The pampered, brilliant youth from Dublin set out to make his fortune by inspired conversation and the constant reshaping of himself. "My Irish accent was one of the many things I forgot at Oxford," he noted, characteristically telling the truth and a joke at the same...
...casual, commercial sex and induced Wilde to follow this lead. The older man was the innocent: "What seems to characterize all Wilde's affairs is that he got to know the boys as individuals, treated them handsomely, allowed them to refuse his attentions without becoming rancorous, and did not corrupt them. They were already prostitutes." That Wilde was careless, selfish and inconsiderate toward his faithful wife and his children is beyond dispute. But he did not deserve being caught and crushed in a murderous struggle between Bosie and his lunatic father. "The impression that has been given of Queensberry...
EMPIRE OF THE SUN A boy loses his parents and becomes a man: corrupt, scheming, desperate to survive at any cost. This is a Steven Spielberg movie? Yes: an anti-E.T., and his most mature, beautifully crafted fable about childhood...