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...Corruption in Vietnam is nothing new. Last year, Transparency International ranked Vietnam 121st out of 180 on its Corruption Perception Index. But it was perhaps easier to overlook occasional shakedowns from officials when Vietnam's economy was doing well and incomes were doubling every few years. That's no longer the case. People being squeezed by the economic downturn are increasingly frustrated by the nation's enduring corruption, says Trinh Hoa Binh, head of environment and health at the government-run Institute of Sociology in Hanoi. Officials are maintaining their special privileges while the economic position of ordinary Vietnamese...
...Islamic societies show that large majorities both reject militants and have serious reservations about the West. "They're saying, 'There's a plague on both your houses,'" says Richard Burkholder Jr., director of Gallup's international polls. Many young Muslims are angry at the outside world's support of corrupt and autocratic regimes despite pledges to push for democracy after 9/11. "Most of the young feel the West betrayed its promises," says Dhillon, of the Brookings Institution. Muslims fume that a few perpetrators of violence have led the outside world to suspect a whole generation of supporting terrorism. "The only...
...here for a year and a month; keep him here for another year and a month but don't hand him over to the Iraqis," Salam says, as other Iraqis gathered around him and echoed his sentiment. "He will be tortured at the hands of the Iraqis. They are corrupt and will make us pay bribes so that they don't torture...
...remains fairly safe in Mexico because of his influence and his ability to corrupt." - Jack Riely, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's El Paso division (National Public Radio, July...
...take this person to find all these clips and splice them together?" Reaction number three is obvious - mockery. But the fourth response is the most surprising. A sense of...pity? No. More like empathy for these poor news folk, who probably want nothing more than to expose corrupt assemblymen or be first on the scene for the next big meth lab bust...