Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tells me a story, and I know that second: I must make a movie out of it," he once said. Inspired by Brecht and Hollywood soap operas, his often autobiographical scripts dealt with the theme of power in contemporary society and reflected his view that individuals and classes inevitably corrupt one another...
...That, in part, was how the New Journalism was born. From barroom, cloakroom and police station, Breslin cut slices of life in which big guys squeezed little guys; people who read too many books didn't know what they were talking about; and politicians were vain, greedy and corrupt-except Bobby Kennedy, who got shot as Breslin watched. Nobody wrote a better eyewitness piece about the assassination...
...system he is fighting, in his view, is "corrupt to its core." While his book is primarily an entertaining gloss of his most intriguing legal battles, Dershowitz lays out his case against criminal justice in a furious ten-page introduction. The system is "built on a foundation of not telling the whole truth," he claims. Even respected members of the profession are part of what he labels the "cheat elite," who doctor facts to produce the results they want. They include not only police and prosecutors, he says, but defense attorneys and judges as well...
...only the killers and cretins among us have loved war. Hegel recommended it. He thought it kept the state from getting stagnant and corrupt. Bacon thought that a just and honorable war was the best "exercise" for a state, like jogging...
...vigorous pursuit and prosecution of political corruption, much like the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Abscam effort. This of course is a largely symbolic move, unlikely to change the overall crime rate, but symbols can have tremendous importance, especially in politics Liberal solutions to most problems, not just crime, will demand that the government, instead of the so called free market, confront the problems of society. And these efforts will meet a dubious reception if the people of this country think the makers of these policies are corrupt...