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When it comes to scandal, Gingrich's instinct has always been for the jugular. He rose to power on the disgrace he brought to those he deemed corrupt, starting with his first year in Congress when he sought the expulsion from the House of Charles Diggs, a Democrat convicted of financial misdeeds, and culminating with his successful campaign in 1989 to force Speaker Jim Wright's resignation...
There is no denying that the novel leaves us with an unpleasant impression of the court, a secret and hidden organization moving along at a slow pace with each procedure being delayed by bureaucracy, hiring incompetent and often corrupt employees and mistreating them. Yet there is a contrast that clearly emerges between K. and anyone associated with the court. The court employees and lawyers tend generally to be poor, unhappy or sickly. K., on the other hand, is well off, holds a prestigious job at a bank, is confident of his abilities and generally pleased with his own behavior. Invited...
...remarkably arrogant way of thinking. In the face of a system one considers corrupt, there are principled alternatives: reform, revolution and non-cooperation are all respectable actions. But to subvert the system for one's personal ends, while leaving the system intact for everyone else--this is an incredibly questionable course of conduct. In holding that you are entitled to go around the system because of your own personal qualifications, you assign to yourself the right to make the judgements the system was established to handle. When people in the outside world mock Harvard and its pretensions, it is precisely...
...imperative that Pakistan shed its tradition of corrupt government, but few are convinced that Nawaz Sharif is the man to do this. His family is one of the richest in Pakistan, yet its members fork out only a pittance in taxes. The armed forces, which have a habit of intervening in Pakistani politics, are displeased with the Prime Minister, and some analysts fear that Nawaz Sharif's actions may increase friction between the pro-Western secularists and religious extremists within the ranks. Warns Maleeha Lodi, a newspaper editor and former ambassador to Washington: "Nawaz Sharif is trying to wrap himself...
...down. If he insists on unleashing religious fervor in Pakistan, he could end up one of its first victims, because not all Islamic radicals trust his credentials. Says Maulana Fazl ul Rehman, leader of the militant Jamiat-Ulema-Islami party: "Nawaz Sharif's government is part of the same corrupt system he hopes to overthrow. Only we are the true devotees who will enforce Islam...