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...More radical critics accuse the bank of having created much of the current debt crisis through providing corrupt and elitist governments with large-scale loans, whose only tangible impact on the poor has been to saddle them with a crippling debt burden...
Akhil Sharma's An Obedient Father, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in June, is an Indian family novel that should appeal to anyone with a taste for red-blooded American realism and farce. His narrator, Ram Karan, a corrupt inspector for the New Delhi school system, is a self-pitying moral sloth whom Mark Twain would have recognized in a Missouri minute...
Things have since changed. India is now the world's largest democracy and home to one of the most well-educated work forces in the world. The country has made great strides from the inefficient and corrupt state-run economy of the 1970s, jumping headfirst into the information technology age. Long before President Clinton showed interest, Bill Gates of Microsoft and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems were already in India, building plants and using the wealth of labor to help fuel their companies. New policies of privatization, tax reduction and the lowering of staggering tariffs on foreign companies has allowed...
...with the near authoritarian power invested in Russia's President by its constitution? He has always been the competent staff officer, the universal soldier supremely faithful to his bosses at the time--whether they were Soviet hard boys at the KGB, reforming zealots in St. Petersburg or the corrupt and failing Yeltsin regime. Now he will be giving the orders. "We do not know enough of him, and he does not know enough of himself," says Dimitri Simes, president of Washington's Nixon Center, "to know how he will evolve on the job." That's what makes some people...
...trio documented 10 cases in their book, painting a portrait of a justice system full of mishandled evidence, corrupt prosecutors and mistaken identities...