Word: corrupter
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Gbagbo has followed Kostunica as a beneficiary of democracy, but now he needs to acknowledge that the elections were seriously flawed. After winning the staged elections last Sunday, he has the unique chance to lead his country towards a full democracy. Ousting a corrupt dictator, however, is not enough. Gbagbo must promise fully democratic elections and the reinstitution of a multi-party democracy...
...20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950" (Houghton Mifflin; 557 pages; $28.95), is a rich, spirited performance. Schlesinger moves energetically down the years, meeting everyone worth meeting, dispensing opinions (sometimes brilliant, sometimes merely partisan and captious, sometimes dead wrong, as when, early on, he pronounces Harry Truman to be a corrupt mediocrity). T. S. Eliot wrote, "The trilling wire in the blood sings beneath inveterate scars,/ Appeasing long forgotten wars...
...this year for congressional passage of a bill to normalize trade relations with China, while Gore remained reticent to avoid alienating his labor and environmentalist supporters. Yet Bush and his advisers also denounce the administration for pursuing a "strategic partnership" with Beijing and for being too friendly with a corrupt and ruthless Russian government. Gore says he would negotiate with Moscow on changes to the Antiballistic Missile Treaty to allow the U.S. to build a limited missile-defense system; Bush says he is willing to scrap the ABM treaty, rapidly develop a missile shield and make unilateral arms reductions...
...said that he plans to return to work, we call on Chief Justice Brock to step down from his post on the Supreme Court. His impropriety has undermined the public's confidence in the New Hampshire legal system and caused those not from New Hampshire to wonder if such corrupt practices reach into other states. While senators argued that errors in judgement are not good enough reasons to force someone to resign, a judge, especially a Supreme Court justice, should be held to a higher standard. Members of the judicial branch of government are entrusted to uphold the rights...
...candidates then proceeded to agree on giving money to corrupt governments (not a good idea), judicious foreign aid (yes, please) and reforming the International Monetary Fund (definitely...