Word: corruption
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...governments to improve their lives. Over the past two decades, vast swathes of Chinese farmland have been converted into the factories, highways and power plants that are fueling the country's economic growth. But many farmers complain that they have not been adequately compensated for losing land, sometimes because corrupt local officials have pocketed the money. In Guangdong alone, two million farmers have been displaced by development, according to provincial statistics. These land seizures were one of the top causes for the 84,000 "disturbances to public order" that Beijing says broke out nationwide in 2005. "We farmers depend...
...Family Network, which Buckham organized in 1996 for the ostensible purpose of promoting conservative values and "moral fitness." Last month the Washington Post reported that nearly all its funding came from corporations linked to Abramoff?including a million-dollar payment that may well have come indirectly from corrupt Russian oil interests, which have never expressed much interest in moral fitness; half a million dollars from textile companies in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific that are known for their cheap labor; and a quarter of a million from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Abramoff's largest client...
...Israel, with the impending passing of Primer Minister Ariel Sharon, may get worse before it gets better. There are wars raging, diseases spreading, and oppressive regimes enduring.In Turin, attendance will be lackluster, some skier will be caught doping, and possibly another round of judging will be exposed as corrupt. But let us enter 2006 with hope and optimism, instead of succumbing to their tempting counterparts, doubt and cynicism. Because, as the Olympics remind us, for every Hitler, there is a Jesse Owens. For every deranged lunatic detonating a bomb in Atlanta, there is a Muhammad Ali gamely lifting a torch...
...Humala enjoys a more telling poll figure: 58% of those in the survey like the fact that he doesn't belong to one of Peru's traditional and often notoriously corrupt political parties. Corruption is the hottest button for Latin voters, and it is biting pols to the left as well, especially Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, whose re-election prospects next October look dimmer with his party mired in a campaign-finance scandal. Latin American political experts say Bush should focus on rewarding clean government rather than raising the ideological temperature. His recent selection of Thomas...
...lesson about Trotsky and Lenin’s idea of the “lump-in proletariat”—that the peasants can’t be intellectually independent. “It took me a long time to realize that the Lenin-Trotsky model was corrupt. That the institutions that help people are corruptible. But that the people themselves are just dynamite...