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...dinner in the living room of his spacious Harare home. (Even stars can't always get maize for sadza, the staple porridge.) Mapfumo, 57, whose waist-length dreadlocks seem designed to defy his receding hairline, realized in the late 1980s that he might have to go back to battle. "Corruption was rampant," he says. "Mugabe has taken the wrong direction." His reply: Varombo Kuvarombo (1988), released abroad in 1989 as Corruption. He hasn't let up, writing songs like Zvatakabva Kuhondo (As we finish the battle, 1994) and Ndiyani Waparadza Musha (Who has destroyed our home?, 1998). State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singing The Walls Down | 2/23/2003 | See Source »

It’s hard to feel too sorry for the vast majority of these crooks (who lose their money, not their lives). These so-called victims are greedy people willing to steal money from the coffers of a foreign government, willing to help corrupt bureaucrats cash out their bribe money, and even willing to take advantage of last year’s terrorist attacks...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Villainous Victims | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

...Pacification: buying off and subsidizing corrupt governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Coming Ashore | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...lived under a corrupt government, in a country that has been widely criticized by many nations for its oppressive regime,” Giles said. “Under these conditions he founded an independent paper, and kept it printing in the face of the strongest political opposition...

Author: By Irene Sanchez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: African Refugee Receives Fellowship | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

...Riverside activists are holding firm to their initial demands, saying the planning board is corrupt and inept...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard’s Battle Over Riverside Reaches Council | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

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