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...much as $60 million annually in tourism revenues--the national government has tried to curb the worst excesses. But it has not provided park officials with the backing they need to fight poachers or to wipe out introduced species, and it has come under intense pressure from fishermen, corrupt politicians and a charismatic leader named Eduardo Veliz, the Galapagos' delegate to the National Congress. Tapping into widespread local resentment, Veliz pushed a law through the Congress that would give the islands enormous autonomy in setting their own rules for tourism and development. When President Sixto Duran Ballen vetoed the legislation...
...What's at issue is four million people whose lives have been destroyed by a corrupt, bad system," said Dan J. Lickel '96, treasurer of the Republican Club, who advocated moving authority over the welfare program to the states through block grants...
...Dennis Fung show that they collected the socks there slightly later. The defense suggests that the socks were put on the floor after the video was taken. Neither Clark nor deputy district attorney Chris Darden explained that discrepancy in their final arguments. They did raise the point that even corrupt cops would have no reason to plant socks without blood on them--the defense charges the blood was applied later...
...bodyguards from the Ku Klux Klan. Cochran and I have been friends for years, but we never discussed the Simpson case until it went to the jury last week. That was in part because I think the evidence points to Simpson's guilt, as well as to police corruption--and I'm not alone, even among blacks. "I think it's possible for the Los Angeles police department to be corrupt and racist and for Simpson to still be guilty," says Julianne Malveaux, the African-American host of a radio show in Washington. "The evidence has clearly shown...
Popular elections in the late 19th century--a period well known for its political machines and corruption--faced an unusual problem. A large number of eligible voters were illiterate; they simply could not read the ballots. Corrupt party members often attempted to exploit this illiteracy by disguising their ballot to look like the other party's ballot. For example, Democrats would print ballots with pictures of Abraham Lincoln, so those unsuspecting and illiterate might suppose that they were voting Republican...