Word: corruption
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...always need total control at the center. If China's center loses power, the country will disintegrate. That's a deep-seated historical lesson. Deng [Xiaoping] said, "You cross the river feeling for one pebble at a time." They're going about it in a pragmatic way. With corruption and the grassroots, they find that when they allow a vote for the village chief, the corrupt officials are voted out. How far will they go? I think they'll go for small townships. As long as they can stay in overall control, they will keep experimenting...
...wildly as tech stocks--depending on the needs of believers. And beginning in the late 1300s, Joseph enjoyed one of the greatest religious rehabilitations in the history of Christianity. The 14th century saw famine, the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death. The church itself was ill, increasingly corrupt and at one point contested by three papal claimants. Families were warped or ripped to shreds, with lites suffering a particular crisis of affection: to avoid having many children who would then divide their estates, noblemen waited until they were quite old before taking young wives and producing much younger...
...Center. His visitor was a burly young Jordanian, bruised and furious after spending six years inside his country's worst prisons. Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi had traveled to Afghanistan with a proposal for the al-Qaeda chief: he wanted to rally Islam's "true believers" to rise up against corrupt regimes in the Middle East. Bin Laden was skeptical. While al-Zarqawi advocated a war on all fronts, bin Laden was fixated on attacking the U.S. and Israel. He was unsure whether the abrasive, ambitious al-Zarqawi would make a reliable lieutenant. But al-Zarqawi would not be dissuaded. According...
...easy answers. Such abstractions and complexities seem to authentically reflect the atmosphere of the post-Sept. 11, 2001 world, where political and moral tensions temper our economic relationship with other nations.Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, “Syriana” is a gritty film that traces oil corruption from the golden deserts of the Persian Gulf to Capitol Hill. Gaghan, Oscar winner for his screenplay for “Traffic,” formats the film in a similar style, choreographing the careful intersections of multiple plots and characters through common dependencies. The writing and acting manage...
...Zuma's troubles began in June when the Durban High Court convicted his friend and financial adviser Schabir Shaik on charges of corruption and fraud. Judge Hilary Squires said that Shaik had paid some $180,000 to Zuma in bribes, and had also helped a French arms trading company bribe Zuma to deflect corruption investigations over a $7.5 billion government deal to buy ships, submarines, helicopters, jets and other arms. Squires said that there was "overwhelming" evidence of a corrupt relationship between Shaik and Zuma. Soon after, President Mbeki sacked his deputy, saying that the court's verdict had "raised...