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...deal to see that political and policy work on this campus is informed by knowledge of the real-world consequences of policies. Those involved in direct-service work often feel that it is a more effective means of achieving positive social change, and look at politics either as a corrupt practice or a secondary priority. But by bringing their experiences and backgrounds to political work on this campus and beyond it, they can improve its depth and keep it honest...
...polls, as well as in a late-March survey in which 68.5% of respondents said that they wanted to see major economic and political changes, including the election of an authoritarian government. "I am voting for Ollanta, because he is going to kick out all the corrupt politicians in Lima and govern for all Peru," said Felix Ticona, 24, at an Humala rally in the southern city of Moquegua...
...homespun southern charm of an overnight media celebrity enthralls the nation through television even as he becomes corrupt, bitter, and political...
From the moment you set foot in the boomtowns of the Rio Grande Valley, you sense you are watching a gold rush, headlong and free spirited and corrupt and ingenious. Stand on a corner some morning in Laredo, Texas, and watch the first of 8,000 trucks a day hauling the global economy north and south, 18-wheelers full of bulldozer claws and baby cribs, all passing through a town that once didn't bother to pave the streets. Now it can't pour concrete fast enough. The banks are open 7 to 7, seven days a week; the pager...
...When Hope Died Our March 13 reporting from China related that growing numbers of farmers are demonstrating over land disputes, pollution and corrupt local officials. Can Beijing calm the rural discontent before it grows into a larger revolt? TIME's June 19, 1989, issue covered a mass protest that ended in tragedy-the Tiananmen Square crackdown...