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Will those roots be watered by a war with Iraq? Optimists within the Bush Administration argue that the removal of Saddam Hussein would open a space for the development of true democracy across the Arab world, one that would offer for the first time a real choice between corrupt authoritarian regimes on the one hand and millennial Islamic extremists on the other. But many experts are skeptical. French officials otherwise wholly supportive of the U.S. are worried that, as one puts it, "some of the headway made against Islamists is lost by American diplomacy that has alienated most...
...combat its alarming incidence of murders, kidnappings and drug trafficking. For the effort, the firm will be paid $4.3 million, to be coughed up by wealthy private citizens. Because of the magnitude of the problems confronting the city of 20 million, the expense seems warranted. Ineffective laws, an often corrupt police force and widespread poverty have given the city the second highest crime rate in Latin America after Bogota, Colombia. Rudy, after you clean up Mexico City, there's a pesky problem in Kabul...
...good for West Africa? Oil-company boosters say the impoverished region will make billions of dollars, which it can spend on improving health, education and infrastructure. "There's incredible opportunity for wealth creation for local people," says Amerada Hess's Carl Tursi. But human-rights activists say corrupt governments often pocket most of the money. Case in point: Nigeria, which has exported over $320 billion-worth of high-grade crude over the past 30 years but has little to show for it beyond some decaying freeways and sports stadiums. One of Nigeria's last military rulers, General Sani Abacha, whose...
...while a Sept. 28 game at Brown included a joke alleging that Providence’s mayor is corrupt, this Saturday’s Northeastern show won’t mention the school...
Peters, who has worked in Malawi since 1986, said the government there is "both inept and corrupt." She described the situation in Malawi as one with ineffective public service organizations but an extremely effective secret service, governmental money-laundering and bribery of officials in opposing political parties...