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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...latest declaration of martial law in Pakistan appears to perpetuate the same cycle of military rule interspersed by short spasms of ineffectual and corrupt democracy, a cycle that Pakistanis are exasperated with. But this time the situation is more dire for the nuclear-armed nation of 165 million people. This time Islamic militants are better placed than ever to rush in and fill the vacuum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf's War on Moderates | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

...continue to think that people who work for city government are evil and no-good and corrupt, but the fact is it isn’t true,” Decker said at a council meeting last month. “At some point, you start taking responsibility and start serving the community, and you can only do that together...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Uniting a City, Dividing a Council | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

...inept and often corrupt law-enforcement and justice system has left 98 percent of cases unsolved, prompting some citizens to take the law into their own hands. On Thursday, for example, an angry mob in the small town of San Juan Sacatepequez captured and burned alive three teenagers suspected of belonging to a street gang. Perez Molina has built support by promising to put more soldiers on the streets to fight crime, and to use the death penalty more frequently. He also supports temporarily suspending some constitutional rights in crime-ridden areas, a tactic used several times last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violence Haunts Guatemala's Election | 11/3/2007 | See Source »

EDWARDS: "Senator Clinton says that she believes she can be the candidate for change, but she defends a broken system that's corrupt in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...that the Ariases, members of Panama's rabiblancos, or white lite, are just being greedy. They deny it, though they won't say how much of the money they would give to charity if they won. But Lehman says this tropical probate drama tests whether Panama's notoriously corrupt judicial system can be trusted to uphold the surge of legal contracts coming its way as the canal expands and Americans continue to move to Panama for cheaper living. "It's important that the poor children get this money and equally important that our legal system stop tarnishing itself," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Panama | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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