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...That is a technique a politician would use: take facts and distort them. You said these candidates will appear on the ballots of most states. Does that mean you are mocking the millions of Americans who feel that something needs to be done to drastically change the government's corrupt practices? Making a joke out of those candidates who can make this country great is insulting. EITAN GAUCHMAN, 17 Champaign, Illinois Via E-mail...
...scandal-ridden, corrupt Administration that does not deserve four more years in public life...
...Lebed's many enemies are pinning their hopes on is that he will finally sully his squeaky-clean image because of his new alliance with that other out-of-work general, Alexander Korzhakov. Korzhakov is not viewed as either clean or an outsider. He is widely alleged to be corrupt, and is a muddied Kremlin infighter. But during his postdismissal press conference, Lebed strongly defended Korzhakov as a "slandered Russian general." He borrowed some of Korzhakov's language and analysis, describing Chubais disparagingly as Russia's "regent" who had deliberately undermined Yeltsin's health by pushing the President too hard...
...even before we've done anything wrong--but it is also a claim about human nature; it says we are inclined to do wrong, that we have a hereditary dark side. As St. Augustine put it in the 5th century A.D.: After Adam sinned, our "soiled" and "corrupt" nature was "already present in the seed from which we were to spring...
...speculating of the late 1980s, the ruling establishment covered one another's bets. In 1992 the bubble burst, the Nikkei stock index lost more than half its value, and Japan plunged into recession. The Liberal Democrats lost their grasp on power, returning a year later in coalitions. "The old corrupt system fell apart," says Taizo Yakushiji, a professor of international politics at Keio University. "So finally we're back to where we were in the early 1970s...