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...Buddhist monks first sang this mantra. For a week now, they had been marching, calling peacefully for change in a country ruled for almost half a century by a corrupt and barbaric junta. Burma's monkhood and military are roughly the same size - both have between 300,000 and 400,000 men - but the similarities end there. With the monks preaching tolerance and peace, and the military demanding obedience at gunpoint, these protests pitted Burma's most beloved institution against its most reviled...
...care about people," says Ed Renwick, a professor of political science at Loyola University in New Orleans . "The problem [in 2003] was, he never defended himself. Now, obviously, he's going to change that." Jindal has responded with ads of his own, attacking his opponents as part of the "corrupt crowd" - even though none of the other major candidates has been tainted by scandal - and touting his conservative bona fides. He's released a slew of position papers on topics ranging from health care to crime, and promised to reform Louisiana's ethically challenged political system - a perennial campaign theme...
...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...