Word: corrupts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people - almost one fifth of Gaza's population - reportedly turned out on the streets for Sheikh Yassin's funeral. Hamas's popularity in Gaza has grown steadily at the expense of the Palestinian Auhority in the course of the current intifadah. While the PA is widely viewed as incorrigibly corrupt and incapable of either protecting Palestinians or achieving their national rights, Hamas maintains an extensive welfare network providing services that the PA can't; its leaders are viewed as incorruptible and its terror attacks give it the image of a movement capable of hitting back at the Israelis. Almost four...
...like McCabe for more reasons than that it involves whorehouses and business conflicts. Like the '70s movies of Altman, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola and others, HBO's dramas rework popcorny genre formats (the cop drama, the Mob flick) with dark, even cynical themes: that institutions are corrupt, that people and systems and families will screw you over, that heroes are never entirely heroic or villains alone in their villainy. Deadwood wants to show not just how the West was won, but who won, what they got and how the process mirrors our time...
...that man. But if I were that man, the case would run something like this: the magic of capitalism, as explained by Adam Smith and his followers, is that it channels individual greed into activities that benefit all of us. "Greed is good," declared Michael Douglas, playing a corrupt financier in the movie Wall Street. More accurately, greed is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. And in moderation, economists argue and history demonstrates, greed is no bad thing. Free-market economies could not function if we were all Mother Teresa...
...line between advertising and legitimate search results. But Yahoo's approach is not unprecedented. At least two other sites, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves, allow companies to pay to be indexed. (Ask Jeeves says it will phase out paid inclusion in April.) According to Yahoo, the practice will not corrupt search results. As the Web keeps growing, billions of Web pages are overlooked. Inclusion in the index means that the site will get searched, not that its relevancy will be artificially inflated, says Yahoo vice president Tim Cadogan. Rankings are determined by relevancy algorithms and link analysis, he says, adding...
...biggest heels in this story, except for their opponents. (Goldblum, who comes off creepy even in movies in which he's the hero, is particularly well cast.) Somehow they make us cheer for them to secure the re-election of the out-of-touch head of a corrupt regime through fearmongering and manipulation--to cheapen democracy in order to save it. --By James Poniewozik