Word: corruptable
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...your cover. His grin lights up a room, and his story lights up the heart! The virus he has seems not to have altered his physical health or his attitude toward life--so different from some of your recent cover subjects, the arrogant, the greedy, the obsessed and the corrupt, who are suffering from "viruses" of mind and soul. I decry the appalling and widespread ignorance about AIDS that kept Magic too long from the things he does best: playing great basketball and making folks smile! Give us more real heroes! ANN B. CHAPMAN Savannah, Georgia...
...wrestle. The prize we must wrest from him is the same as the one Jacob received from his heavenly opponent. From our struggle with Buchanan, we must win a name; we must find an identity. If we are not for him, what are we for? If his message is corrupt and filthy, what have we to say? If we rebuke his conservatism, what is the nature...
...lieutenants are failed Mandarins--recall that as a historian, Gingrich was denied tenure at a third-rank college--ho despise the Mandarin path for its air of self-satisfaction and for having been so blind to the abilities of Gingrich & Co. when young. When Gingrich rails against the corrupt "elite," he's talking about the Mandarins--and hitting a nerve. Mandarin resentment has enabled the Republican Party, whose home has always been in the upper half of the income distribution, to present itself successfully as the party of the little people...
Consider Antigua, for example, a low-lying island with beaches of soft white sand where both British royals and rockers like to vacation. Under decades of rule by Vere Bird Sr., the tiny island with a population of only 63,000 became one of the most corrupt in the region, long known for sheltering traffickers in armaments and drugs. According to U.S. intelligence sources, Bird's son Vere Jr. has been tied to a 1990 plot to establish a school that would train mercenaries to fight for the Medellin cartel. He was also involved, they say, in covert gun shipments...
...students talked the talk of passionate concern for some aspect of public policy, not one had any desire to walk the walk of a career in the public sector. "The money in the public sector is nonexistent," said one. "Government is defined by mediocrity," expressed another. "Government is too corrupt and too bureaucratic anyway," they all chorused...