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Porter was certainly not the only HRC candidate to play with the vote, and the HRC is certainly not the only student organization to conduct stilted and corrupt elections on campus. As such, it is telling that Porter thinks his actions justifiable and that he has assumed the presidency this past Monday. It seems that he cares not that the vote which secured his position contained elements that had no investment or interest in the HRC, nor that the position is certainly not his for the taking...
Worse than the memory of the pain is the wall of silence that immediately fell around the village chiefs implicated in the attack, which arose from the village's refusal to allow Wu Fang to divorce her husband. Powerful and corrupt, these officials from Fenghuo village in northwestern Shaanxi province have consistently blocked all attempts by Wu Fang to bring them to justice. When a Chinese newspaper wrote a story sympathetic to her case in 1996, the village sued for libel--and won last June in a local court. "Everywhere in China there are outside factors that interfere with legal...
...will never sink so low." If nothing else, Marcus's book should go some distance toward explaining to all those flabbergasted Republicans how Clinton could have trounced Bush, then gotten away with so much naughtiness. "The fear Bill Clinton inspires is not that he will steal you blind and corrupt your morals; it is that he will do all that and more, and make you like...
...will need the congressional backing of many in the PRI and the smaller opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) for his campaign to restructure the security system to make it less corrupt and more responsive. He'll need them even more in his campaign to privatize more of the country's energy sector, which is a tall order in a nation whose electorate thinks of Mexico's oil as a national resource and has blocked every previous effort toward privatization. But in Fox's scheme, privatization remains the key to attracting the foreign investment necessary to achieve his economic growth targets...
...desperate as the odds may appear, Fox still has plenty going for him. The corrupt vested interests that dominate the bureaucracy may be intimately entwined with the PRI, but the former ruling party is in disarray, and that gives the new president plenty of openings. To be sure, the PRI's power structure was built on an elaborate system of patronage, and being in opposition considerably diminishes the party's ability to deliver to its regional and local baronies and fiefdoms. That will allow Fox to bolster political support for his own programs by going directly to PRI governors...