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...also the chief U.S. agent for Carlos Jader Alvarez, one of the godfathers of her country's drug trade. With careful stroking, Darias had persuaded Navarro to let his firm launder more than $1 million of Alvarez's cocaine profits when Operation Swordfish was abruptly halted, partly because a corrupt DEA agent had blown its cover...
...contrast, the world from which Kate Gaffney-Kozinski escapes is seen as numbing and corrupt. Immigration, corporate push and interlocking alliances have threatened the simpler traditions of mateship and the bush. There, the wounded Kate finds honest work as a barmaid at Murchison's Railway Hotel in a place called Myambagh. She acquires a flair for pouring beer, a taste for fattening food and a liking for a chap nicknamed Jelly -- not because of his shape but because he has a way with the explosive gelignite. Amid what Thomas Keneally labels "a safer Australia . . . where people called lunch dinner...
Brown said he was doubtful the imposition of term limits would end corrupt relations between interest groups and political candidates. Such a step would simply be "a new dose of yeast in the cauldron of politics," Brown said...
...state refused to release $600 million dollars earmarked for building new municipal schools unless the city created a separate agency charged with overseeing the construction. Ironically, many large cities originally delegated more power to local school boards in order to fight graft. In so many instances, they merely replaced corrupt professionals with corrupt amateurs...
...bureau and national economics correspondent based in Washington. With us, he found not only security but also renown: Gwynne and TIME correspondent Jonathan Beaty won three major awards last year for their exposes of how the Bank of Credit & Commerce International ran a one-stop shopping center for criminals, corrupt leaders and official intelligence agencies around the world. Random House will publish their jointly written book on B.C.C.I., The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of B.C.C.I., later this month...