Word: corruption
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...According to state media, at least six schools were destroyed by the quake and its aftershocks; at one school, almost 900 eighth and ninth graders were believed to have been buried. Wang was forced to pick his way carefully around the question, aware of its implication that corrupt local officials had siphoned off funds from school construction. He denied that an unusually large number of schools had collapsed. Corruption has proved an inflammatory issue in the past-it was one of the driving forces behind the Tiananmen protest in 1989-and coupling it with an issue like the deaths...
...destruction wrought by Cyclone Nargis in Burma will have a similar impact - that it will force the military junta that, in one guise or another, has ruled Burma for decades to change its ways: win the trust of its citizens, and devote its resources not to sustaining a bloated, corrupt military but to helping people live better lives. But assessing how governments will conduct themselves is not like the common law, where precedents accrete until they solidify into doctrine that shapes future conduct. The dreadful famine in North Korea in the 1990s, for instance, did nothing to change the outlook...
...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...