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Washington is a town full of corrupt and cynical and arrogant sons-of-bitches who think everything of their own careers and nothing of the people they are supposed to serve...

Author: By Allen C. Soong, | Title: The View From a Senatorial Mailroom | 9/22/1993 | See Source »

...Beavis and Butthead" isn't going to usher civilization back to a new Dark Age, and it isn't going to corrupt the young. The young are corrupted already, and they know...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Beavis Generation | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

Mubarak will be re-elected to a third six-year term by Parliament in October, even though his National Democratic Party is generally dismissed as incompetent and corrupt. But the party enjoys an overwhelming majority in Parliament, and Mubarak is the sole candidate. Every opposition group in the country, including the Muslim Brotherhood, refuses to endorse him. As election time approaches, Mubarak is talking vaguely about reform. In a recent speech he called for more cooperation "between all political forces" in order to "surround the abyss of terrorism and foil its plots." His supporters say he intends to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombs in The Name of Allah | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...verdict ended Altman's five-month New York City trial on eight felony charges, ranging from bribery to deceiving the government, all relating to his various affiliations with the corrupt Bank of Credit & Commerce International. Altman, whose partner, Clark Clifford, was deemed too ill to stand trial, had endured a 30-month personal struggle during which he and Clifford were stripped of their bank jobs, lost their once powerful law firm, and saw their reputations tarnished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Innocent As Charged | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...about an American girl found dead on the boardroom table at a Japanese conglomerate's American headquarters. This plot was more intricate than it had to be because the author was determined to show that there was nothing in American life that the wily Asiatics could not penetrate and corrupt if they set their minds to it -- the Los Angeles police department, of course, but also the U.S. Senate, distinguished universities, even country clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cultural Confusions | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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