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...allegedly accepted trips to Britain, Moscow, the Pacific Mariana islands, and South Korea that were paid for by private interestsand, in the latter case, by a foreign interest. DeLay is certainly one of the most powerful politicians in Washington, but he seems increasingly to be one of the most corrupt as well. His indictment is long overdue and only begins to address his ethical lapses...
...interrogated captured American G.I.s during the Korean War, and as a teenager two decades later, Zheng led his middle school's Communist Youth League. Only when the reform era hit China in the 1980s did the aspiring poet have what his family calls an "awakening." China's leaders were corrupt and tyrannical, he said, and he would fight them with words. Yet despite the provocative title of his self-published 2002 collection of poems, The Era of Brainwashing, his work went mostly unnoticed. If not for the Internet, Zheng, now 57, might still sit in his mildewed sixth-floor walk...
...truthful access to its citizens. Yet one still cannot help but wonder about Delisle's own, unstated and unexamined prejudices that may have prevented him from fully accessing these people. Pyongyang's depiction of North Koreans as strange, weak (in their inability to critically examine and overthrow an utterly corrupt government) and exploitable by the West fits an unfortunate pattern of past such depictions of Asians. How much of the book's depictions come from Delisle's own cultural expectations? The answer remains debatable. Many of the things he highlights as particularly weird or objectionable have arguable counterparts...
...Orleans' skyline but also the more larcenous and dysfunctional side of its free wheeling culture. "I'm still high on him," says Mark Lewis, president of the New Orleans-based Louisiana Technology Council. "He's the right leader to bring the city back-especially when you consider that the corrupt old guard could try to exploit this disaster and come back into power...
Whether at the local, state, or federal level—not to mention the many specific bureaucrats who have been exposed as corrupt or inept in the past weeks—no party involved can claim complete immunity to the charge of an altogether inappropriate level of function...