Word: corruption
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...made your political reputation as an anti-corruption crusader. The last year of your husband's administration has included some high-profile financial scandals. Given that corruption is still Latin America's No. 1 plague, will you make it a priority in your own government? Yes, and the key is building an absolutely independent and professional judiciary. No government can guarantee the absence of corruption any more than you can guarantee that a shirt will never need washing. But you do need to assert an attitude that includes either removing these people or putting them in front of the judiciary...
...consensus among the diplomatic community in Kigali is that Kagame is a benevolent dictator. One senior Western official says that, contrary to predictions that Kagame would follow the African pattern of guerrilla leaders turning corrupt autocrat, he is devolving power and enforcing accountability. Last year, he gutted the central bureaucracies and handed many powers to local mayors, who now report every three months to the President. "It's democracy with constraints," says the diplomat. "You're free to criticize, but you can't bring up the ethnic question, or you'll end up in jail." Kagame points out that...
...problem of the corrupt old Chinese businessman is a recurrent image that has once again resurfaced in the U.S. media. Norman Hsu, top Democratic fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, was charged last week with swindling and donating millions of dollars from investors in his bogus business ventures. While the motives behind his actions are unclear, Hsu said in an Aug. 29 statement to The Wall Street Journal merely that “I have been blessed by what this country has given me,” and that he wished to give back, without expecting anything...
...similar legal coup for his second term started to unravel last March when he attempted, and failed, to dismiss the increasingly independent supreme court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Since then his popularity, which was at record highs when he first took power from a Prime Minister widely seen as corrupt and out of touch, has plummeted to levels below that of Osama bin Laden (though still higher than U.S. President George W. Bush, according to a new poll). Last week, through his lawyer, Musharraf promised the Supreme Court that he would step down as chief of the army...
...worse, this paranoid box-ticking is an affront to the fact that student groups augment, not corrupt, the Harvard name. Legally the name Harvard belongs to the President and Fellows. But without the faculty, students, and sub-agencies of the College cooperating in the Harvard project, it is hard to imagine that the name would be worth very much at all. We students are among the people who vest value in the Harvard name in the first place. It is an insult to assert that we have no right to its use, and that the very name...