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...Colombian police and army corrupt? Some are; most are not. Colombian officials privately acknowledge that the army and, to a lesser degree, the police are infiltrated by the drug gangs. Says a Western diplomat: "There's too much money to be made by being Escobar's friend. And being his enemy is the quickest way I know to get killed...
...good throwing arm. Fathers and grandfathers have signed over their moral duties to the children in the streets. The traditional patriarchy begins to disintegrate. The Palestine Liberation Organization still serves as banner and facade, but many Palestinians believe that it is increasingly feckless, corrupt and out of touch. The failures of leadership on either side of the struggle collaborate to create a sense of hopelessness. Hamas, the fundamentalist Islamic movement, feeds handsomely upon the ambient despair...
...course it's questionable whether obscene art actually hurts anyone. Anyone who doesn't like an exhibit can avoid going to that part of the museum that day. If parents think art can corrupt their minor children, they should just not let their children see the offensive work--a sort of self-styled "just say no to sadomasochistic art" campaign...
Human rights organizations refer to Doe's decade in power as a reign of terror. His government was brutal and corrupt; the country is nearly $2 billion in debt and virtually bankrupt. It is not certain, however, that Taylor will be an improvement. While he talks about free elections, he does not specify when they might take place...
...that point he was not really a writer anymore but a full-time lawyer. The eight years he spent as a deputy U.S. prosecutor included Operation Greylord, a widespread crackdown and sting operation that nabbed corrupt judges and other scoundrels in the Illinois legal system. Turow successfully prosecuted, among others, a state attorney general and a circuit-court judge...