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...mess like this? Despite his solid-gold reputation, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates, found himself last week at the center of the largest global banking scandal ever. As the most recent owner of the notoriously corrupt Bank of Credit & Commerce International, which regulators closed earlier this month, Zayed has become the unwitting goat for nearly two decades of alleged fraud by the bank's Pakistan-based managers and for years of neglect by banking authorities around the world. After investing $1 billion to shore up B.C.C.I. since...
...Smiling.)) A man brought up in a family like mine could never be a good criminal. And the Colombian authorities are not as corrupt as you think. You've never seen a mayor in Colombia being acquitted after being caught buying and consuming cocaine like Washington's mayor ((Marion Barry...
...does not believe in the existence of evil knows all about the horrors of the world. He knows that humanity is often vicious, violent, corrupt, atrocious. And that nature's cruelties and caprices are beyond rational accounting: Bangladesh does not deserve the curse that seems to hover over it. But the man thinks that to describe all that as evil gives evil too much power, too much status, that it confers on what is merely rotten and tragic the prestige of the absolute. You must not allow lower instincts and mere calamities to get dressed up as a big idea...
...many charging that they were mentally or physically abused - have quit the church and criticized it at their own risk. Some have sued the church and won; others have settled for amounts in excess of $500,000. In various cases judges have labeled the church "schizophrenic and paranoid" and "corrupt, sinister and dangerous." (See "Scientology Trial in France: Can a Religion Be Banned...
...start with the descent of American politics into a corrupt bazaar of special interest groups vying for power. The first and most important obstacle to Congressional approval of gun control legislation is the three million-member National Rifle Association, which, in the case of the Brady Bill, was able to kill a bill that enjoyed 95 percent approval in public opinion polls...