Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawyers did," Turow says. As he continues, it becomes clear the program has indeed made him increasingly sympathetic--with the lawyers. Having defended "hundreds of other people who had committed the same offenses," he explains, "these lawyers could no longer rationalize to themselves that misbehavior is the effect of corrupt social structures, since husbands and wives and daughters and cousins of the same person would come in, all of whom would be perfectly admirable human beings, although they had existed under the same circumstances...
...credit, Carr did not attack just the West. He also denounced Africa's own murderous dictators, self-seeking businessmen and corrupt politicians. This caused trouble in Kenya, where the All Africa Conference is based. Attorney General Charles Njonjo turned against Carr, branding him a meddler. Even though a palatial $2 million headquarters on government-donated land is due to open in Nairobi next October, Carr tried to pull the organization out of the country...
...South African security official and liaison for Uncle Remus. Muller is a courteous, unflappable professional who leads Castle to recall the warning of an old South African friend: "Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel, our worst enemies are the intelligent and the corrupt...
...fleeting interest in religious faith seems like a crack in the sidewalk that Greene is compelled to step on. Despite the title, compassion is not the novel's strong point. It is rather the author's bitterness and sense of inevitability about "the intelligent and the corrupt," the Mullers who talk calmly about final solutions and the agents who plan the murder of a colleague between mouthfuls of smoked trout. This may be familiar stuff, but after half a century of providing his special style of morose entertainment, Greene remains working proof that for writers, unlike athletes...
...Jack Locicero, the present consigliere of the West Coast crime syndicate. Another of their associates, Mafia Enforcer Mike Rizzitello, has not been connected with Bomp's murder, but will be charged with extortion in the same indictment. All six will be tried under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law, which provides penalties of up to 20 years in jail for anyone convicted of engaging in a "pattern of racketeering activity...