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...themselves in these mantles of competing nationalisms, but the bottom line is they're a bunch of crooks," says the Western diplomat. Reinforcing that impression, Bangladesh has had the unhappy distinction over the past five years of being ranked worst or near worst on Berlin-based Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. (As for the years the country was not the most corrupt, Bangladeshis joke that officials must have bribed their way out of the bottom spot.) Muzaffer Ahmad, chairman of Transparency International's Bangladesh chapter, says both main parties are guilty of sleaze: "Making money, if you control...
...total - to prevent malaria in Africa because "this is an amount that is too large for Africa but truly tiny for the rich world." But you and I have already paid this amount over a hundredfold through our tax money, which has been given as relief and aid to corrupt African leaders who have salted it away. Shouldn't our governments be doing something to seize those stolen funds and then give them to the people who would benefit? How can our leaders sit by knowing all along that the donations given to African and other countries are very often...
...length of time knows leakers leak because they are trying to advance an agenda of their own, or because they have some personality or psychological quirk that leads them to disclose information out of official channels." Documents could easily be planted on the site by the same "corrupt" governments and corporations Wikileaks seeks to expose...
Vanya Solntsev is an orphan, filed and forgotten in a Russian children's home so bleak that Dickens himself would have hesitated to describe it. The older inmates effectively run the orphanage from a boiler room, dealing dope and running teenage prostitutes. The official administration is equally corrupt and totally ineffectual. They can't even bother to teach their charges to read and write. Little Vanya's only good luck is his looks; he's simply adorable in his silent watchful way, and a prime candidate for adoption. There's big money to be made in the international traffic...
...million to $15.7 million. The current holdings come as a result of Harvard’s investments in two index funds managed by the British investment bank Barclay’s. If Harvard wishes to live up to its promise of divestment, it should sever even indirect ties to corrupt firms like Sinopec and PetroChina and remain vigilant to avoid future investments in these companies...