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...idealism sexy. He and the pricey cast (Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley) make the machinery purr. The writers have corrected the book's dangling threat -- how to confront and cleverly resolve Mitch's brief disloyalty to Abby -- and its stodgy ending. The movie's moral is that however corrupt the Mob is, these lawyers are worse. Better for Mitch to cut a deal with a don than to let the firm stay in business...
...source, the 88-year-old head of state has lost all real decision-making ability, and now Deng's family members -- some of whom had taken advantage of the authority vacuum -- stand to lose power. Members of the top leadership are distancing themselves from Deng's children, and a corrupt Deng retainer was recently stripped of his immunity from prosecution by the man who may someday officially become Deng's successor, Jiang Zemin...
...background cannot help giving a special character to a sculptor's use of the "heroic" figure, to her ideas on the body's status as a container of esthetic feeling, to her sense of the monumental. How can you imagine a monument in a culture that has been ideologically corrupt for half a century...
WHEN HUMAN-RIGHTS CHAMPION JORGE CARPIZO MacGregor took over as Mexico's Attorney General early this year, he vowed to crack down on drug traffickers and the corrupt government officials who collaborate with them. Few citizens expected much action. But Mexican police have already killed two drug lords, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo and Emilio Quintero Payan, the alleged leader of the Guadalajara cartel. Carpizo's agents have captured more than 15 tons of cocaine, one-third more than in all of 1992. In one bust, police found 7.2 tons of cocaine hidden in 8,000 cans of jalapeno peppers...
...Piers Paul Read had simply rehashed the same story, Ablaze would have been unexceptional. Instead he has probed deeply into the history of Soviet nuclear power and into the personal stories of people who operated within a corrupt political system to try to make a dangerous, haphazardly designed technology work. Then, just as he did in the 1975 bestseller Alive, he takes us through the accident, minute by minute, describing the deliberate rule bending and honest mistakes that led to the explosion, the terrible bravery of technicians and fire fighters who tried to limit the damage...