Word: corrupter
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When Musharraf led his bloodless coup, he wasn't considered a ruthless strongman or an unusually cunning operator. Many hoped he would put corrupt officials on trial and restore some political freedoms. In his first two years in power, however, he fumbled that goal, allowing democracy to remain a distant, foggy ideal. Then came Sept. 11. He was asked by George Bush to help bring down the Taliban, a group nurtured by the Pakistan government and military. The decisive repositioning of Pakistan by Musharraf won him a new reputation for deft statesmanship. In the 1971 war with India, the President...
...each time he hires a "model," an extra like Suraj loses work. Suraj, who dreamed of being an action hero, now thinks he is lucky to have a union card. The money is awful, and he is often at the mercy of corrupt agents, but still Suraj says he will never go back home to Bhopal. "I can't do anything else," he says. Nevertheless, he might soon have to. He waits every day at the dank office, but producers are no longer calling. "This is a cruel industry," says filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who tries to hire junior artists...
...pity is that while manipulations might have been a virtual necessity to succeed in business in the corrupt and stultified economy of the 1970s and 1980s, Ambani's tactics continued to raise concerns after 1991 when liberalizing reforms began to kick in. Reliance nearly suffered a disastrous collapse in investor confidence in 1995, when the Bombay Stock Exchange raised questions over share duplications and other accounting anomalies that appeared to disadvantage minority shareholders. The company subsequently pleaded guilty to technical breaches and clerical errors but no intent to defraud was found. Confidence was ultimately restored and the share price rebounded...
...Friday prayers in the city of Isfahan for 30 years. Taheri's resignation came as a shock to the clerical establishment that has controlled state power since the Islamic Revolution, in which he played a significant role. In his resignation statement, Taheri portrayed Iran's establishment as deeply corrupt, self-serving, hypocritical and repressive. Iran's highest-ranking security body ordered a gag on press coverage of the resignation, citing the need to preserve calm and protect national security. INDONESIA Separatists Soldiers shot dead six men and one woman, fighters from the Free Aceh Movement. Clashes in the province...
...contact worth it? At the time, many didn't think so. In the last years of Yeltsin's rule, he had become an always ailing, often drunk figure at the head of a corrupt state and chaotic economy. Why suck up to such a man? Talbott--a former editor at TIME who was a key policymaker on Russia throughout the Clinton years, ending up as Deputy Secretary of State--makes a convincing case for taking Yeltsin seriously. In his telling, Clinton's Russian policy was motivated above all by realism. Clinton and his team knew that Yeltsin wasn't perfect...