Word: corrupter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Carolyn A. Cassidy '99, a co-producer of the show, described it as a political tale focusing on an election battle between a corrupt political machine boss and a moral underdog...
...free-marketeers might be reminded that countries do not grow and develop by accident. The environment must be conducive to growth. For this, the government must play a role. All governments are corrupt to one degree or another. But what is certain is that if a country does well, the government cannot be totally corrupt and incompetent. The governments of East Asia are far from perfect, but no one can say they did not bring prosperity as well as real, tangible and personally felt benefits to their people. Such was the progress and potential that investors came in droves...
...sweep of the political breakdown is astonishing. In Thailand, where the disintegration of the baht one year ago set off the tidal wave, the Prime Minister presided over a spectacularly corrupt regime. General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, a former army chief turned politician, wasted billions propping up ailing finance companies owned by political cronies. When the currency crumbled under the pressure, he chose to throw good money after bad in a futile attempt to avoid a humiliating devaluation. Malaysia's cantankerous, 72-year-old Premier Mahathir Mohamad, strongman for 17 years, ran a one-man show with total control over the country...
...columnist Patricia Smith for making up 48 different characters in her columns; now Barnicle, 54, gets caught with 10 stolen jokes for a column of 38 one-liners. It can be argued that Barnicle's crime is of a lesser degree--more an act of slothful corner cutting than corrupt journalism. Should he fall, many believe it will have less to do with the Carlin incident than an arrogance that has long irked colleagues--and the need for the paper to act as tough toward a white man as it did toward Smith, a black woman...
...have a child. Digging into the book, the reader meets a Vietnamese immigrant struggling with tradition, a young writer working in a bagel shop to pay rent, a college dropout discussing the problems of our education system and a woman with epilepsy. Statements on e-mail romances, corrupt politics and violence are all present, addressing the concerns of contemporary society. The novel's contributors comprise a fairly limited circle in that they share an obvious common trait: all are writers. What's more, almost all of them are intimately involved with New York City: some were born there, other moved...