Word: corrupter
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Even if the FBI's conduct proves to have been more careless than venal, the charges call attention to more serious problems that have led to 95 exonerations in capital cases since 1973, problems such as corrupt prosecutors, lying jailhouse snitches, incompetent forensic experts, junk science and racial prejudice. Will people be prepared to support the next execution if they have even the faintest doubts about the last...
...supposed to mean a mistake, but this killing was deliberate, focused and recreational. War is a great and terrible permission. A spirit of satanic play shoots a jolt of lethal impulse through the trigger finger. This is absolute power, on a person-to-person basis. It tends to corrupt absolutely. Degenerate violence takes on a life of its own. It feeds especially on women and children, the victims of convenience. It seeks them out. In the drug wars, a shadow struggle, an American woman and her adopted daughter got carelessly shot down the other day over Peru...
...Long ago, Charles Lindbergh embodied the chivalric attraction of flight - the lone eagle, soaring without boundaries in the purity of the upper air: "O, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth/ and climbed the sky on laughter-silvered wings." The aviation industry, with a sort of corrupt nostalgia, still uses rhetoric about "the freedom to fly." But Lindbergh ultimately became profoundly disgusted with the industry that he had pioneered. He ended life regarding air travel as mere squalor and aviation in general as one of the world's serious environmental problems...
...Arroyo has been counting on turning the economy around with more foreign investment, pitching the Philippines as less corrupt and more stable now that she's the president. But what we?ve seen this week is that this is a very deeply polarized society, and it's going to be harder to sell it as stable when she's forced declare de facto martial law and lock up her opponents...
...indictment addresses the lifeblood of a uniquely corrupt regime. By shedding light on the Byzantine sources of support for a government whose workings have long remained mysterious to the outside world, it may help the country unravel responsibility for the crimes of the past decade, not only in Serbia but everywhere the wars of the former Yugoslavia were fought...