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...good graces, he has the inspiration to plant a smear of Dallas, as a dope-smoking Red, in a rival column. That little trick doesn't drive the lovers apart so, on J.J.'s orders, Sidney plants reefers on Dallas and has him arrested and assaulted by a corrupt cop named Harry Kello. Later that night Sidney is summoned to J.J.'s penthouse apartment but finds only Susie there. After he saves her from jumping to her death, she tears her clothes apart just as J.J. enters to find "evidence" that his sister was raped. Now the columnist...
...final frame-up, where Susie shows she is her brother's sister. "The terrible thing about people like you," she tells Sidney, "is that decent people have to become like you in order to stop you - in order to survive." In other words, to stay pure they must do corrupt things. Of course, Susie could be lying; it's a family trait...
...want our protectors to go in our name? There's no simple answer. Mackey (played by Michael Chiklis, of the lame sitcom Daddio, with surprising cocksure charisma), runs the elite strike-team unit in one of L.A.'s. toughest precincts. But the unit is really a gang itself--corrupt, racist and bullying (even to other cops) and running its own testosterone-charged...
...Among his first duties was attempting to quell a simmering dispute between clans controlling two villages. A schoolyard brawl that had ended with a student's ear being hacked off had escalated into a local war. "I told the party secretary to stop this, but he was corrupt and didn't handle it," Liang says...
Nevertheless, Americans are often wary of foreign aid because they worry it will end up in the hands of corrupt rulers rather than going to the people who really need it. The U.S. knows about such corruption and uses foreign aid to pay off backwards governments rather than help oppressed people. Congress has been paying off countries like Jordan and Egypt for years—Pakistan just got a healthy $600 million grant last year for cooperating with our anti-bin Laden efforts. However, foreign aid should serve a more noble purpose than buying the loyalties of autocratic governments...