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...political opportunists, financial finaglers--and no longer hold egregious vices against the politicians they vote for. A variation on this theory blames the press and the political system for scandal overload. Overdosing on exposes and special prosecutors, the public--while amiably willing to believe in general that politicians are corrupt--has lost its capacity for outrage at any particular new disclosure. A Clinton-friendly version of this theory holds that the mud doesn't stick because it shouldn't stick...
...Secretary Mickey Kantor has decided that because the U.S. punishes its nationals for paying bribes to obtain contracts, American firms unfairly lose billions in global business deals. In Europe such bribes are not only legal but usually tax deductible. So Kantor is pressing other countries hard to adopt U.S. corrupt-practices law. He is warning that if foreign competitors do not, he may go to Congress for stronger laws, and sanctions might be in the offing...
Again the U.S. has come to the rescue of a corrupt puppet, a man disliked by his own people because he has brought them only misery. You said, "Democracy triumphed." Hardly! ESTELA GIBSON Cypress, California...
...same attitude as Klein, trivializing the brouhaha over Anonymous as the equivalent of "Who Shot J.R." and counseling critics to "get a life." But by Friday, after a slew of negative comments from other journalists, culminating in a blistering New York Times editorial that called Klein's actions "corrupt," the mood changed. Klein, cocky during his press conference, became more subdued as he suffered the contempt of his colleagues. "The public looks at us as people who make judgments about character,'' said nbc News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert. "When they see one of us lying, it hurts everyone." Added...
...know that his mind, at least, is not in the gutter. The film places Moore's character, a stripper named Erin Grant, in a nasty fight to regain custody of her daughter from a creepy former spouse, which in turn involves her in the murderous machinations of corrupt rich people. But it forgets to explain persuasively what a nice girl like Erin is doing in a dump called the Eager Beaver, taking off her clothes for a living. Worse, according to Schickel, he misses novelist Carl Hiaasen's strength: setting mean-funny characters spinning through lowlife milieus. Yes, Burt Reynolds...