Word: corruption
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...complaints of China's petitioners are a stark reminder of the lingering social ills confronting the nation as President Hu Jintao wraps up his first year in office. The most common grievances involve corrupt local officials, land seized by authorities and developers to fuel China's property boom, unpaid wages from cash-strapped state-owned enterprises, and industrial accidents at unregulated private factories. Some cases are doubtless spurious, but most aren't. Even Zhou Zhanshun, head of the State Letters and Visits Bureau, admitted to the state-run Xinhua News Agency in January that 80% of the complaints are reasonable...
...Bomb’s detractors, who have nevertheless insisted on labeling it as porn, argue that such a magazine is degrading to the student body and threatens to corrupt the students who read it. Yet there is nothing inherently harmful or degrading about sex or nudity, and as legal adults, most college students have the capacity to deal with these matters maturely. Ultimately, critics must not confuse issues of morality with those of sexuality, and they should realize that discussing sex is healthier than ignoring...
...been turned into a Bombay Mob hit man tempted to kill his sadistic don for the don's disloyal mistress?the incarnation of Lady Macbeth. It may be possible to imagine three cackling witches in India's teeming megalopolis, but Bhardwaj chooses to replace them with a pair of corrupt, soothsaying cops who get their jollies playing all sides in the bloody gangland rivalries...
...service of the elite. Money inequality drives a wedge between students who have cash pouring in from their families and others who don’t. The money culture—that inclination to reward anything based on a “market” (whether real, illusory or corrupt)—is corroding the values of too many fine institutions. Including Harvard...
...Duma, demanded the postponement of next month's presidential elections. The audacity of the subway attack has again exposed Russia's vulnerability to terrorism. While Russian law requires nonresidents of Moscow to report to police on arrival and state their business, Russian police and security structures are so corrupt that Chechen fighters can move around the capital with little fear of getting caught. Any unofficial visitor, including young Chechen males, can easily stay as long as they want merely by paying the odd $3 to $6 bribe. The guerrillas who carried out the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 even...