Word: corruption
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...probably don't need to tell you, Mike has his problems trying to maintain his austere values in contemporary Los Angeles. All kinds of troubled people - a frenzied lawyer, a louche movie star, a corrupt producer and a rich variety of thugs and toughs swim through his life. On top of which his wife - who seemed pretty OK for awhile - betrays him because she has money troubles of her own. Eventually, reluctantly, he decides to fight for money, except that he discovers that the card on which he's booked is rigged...
...leaders, the country has gone through one of the most rapid economic transformations in recent history. It wasn't too long ago that Batswana children were schooled under trees and the country was so poor that its postindependence leaders famously told inquiring businessmen that there was "no point being corrupt." After years of consistent growth--Botswana since independence had one of the world's fastest-growing economies, and growth now hovers between 5% and 6%--primary, secondary and university education is almost free (and indoors). Most health services, including antiretroviral treatment for aids, which has devastated the country, are also...
...laptop, and Eric Dane, the man they call Dr. McSteamy from Grey's Anatomy, was holding court a few feet away. I could have salvaged what dignity I still had, and walked out in principled protest. But then I saw Isiah Whitlock Jr., the actor who played the corrupt Sen. Clay Davis on HBO's The Wire, standing with his hands at his side. Before I knew what I was doing, I had walked over and asked if I could get him a drink from...
Hardened women prisoners batter each other with metal bars in a grimy jail. A corrupt prison warden carries out shady deals in dark streets. Masked riot police storm into the penitentiary machine guns blazing...
...United Nations, 21% of the people live in extreme poverty - and the figure is rising - making it South America's second-poorest nation behind Bolivia. (Per capital gross domestic product is little more than $4,000 a year.) It is also one of the hemisphere's most corrupt, which Colorado critics blame on so many years of one-party rule - 35 of those under the brutal and venal Stroessner until his 1989 overthrow. Paraguay's government has been civilian since 1993; but a recent survey found that more than a third of voters regard public corruption as the country...