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...voted out of power in 1977, after her countrymen grew tired of the repressive manner in which she governed India during the 1975-77 state of emergency that she had proclaimed. This time the issues are more diffuse. Opposition parties charge that the Congress leadership has become corrupt and insensitive to the public welfare. In addition, there are powerful local controversies. In Andhra Pradesh, for instance, the movie star turned politician N.T. Rama Rao won a stunning victory for his new Telugu Desam party, advocating increased powers for the state's Telugu majority. In Delhi, many Sikhs vowed...
...story traces Ann Marie O'Brien's quick rise to power in city politics, from the moment she impresses political boss Mayor Tom Cullen to her ascension to the mayoralty. She becomes a media star because of her tough, no-nonsense approach to city issues and outmaneuvers the corrupt aldermen whose interests she interferes with. Once she takes office, her television-commentator finance, Paul Michael Martin, engineers a deal with the most corrupt group of aldermen -to plead their case to his lover in exchange for a cut of their profits...
...Paul Michael Martin's sexual fantasies. And in the first chapter, he keeps the otherwise lame plot moving by introducing a series of bizarre homosexual murders. O'Brien, who has remained celibate since the disappearance of her husband, finds her politics career relieves her frustrations; meanwhile, as Chicago politics corrupt her more and more, she gets gradually more involved with "P.M." Martin...
...midst of powerful human events. Joan of Arc was such a figure, as was Gandhi, the leader of one of history's greatest popular movements. The Gandhi Attenborough chose to depict is the Gandhi of popular memory: the holy man who shrewdly arrayed his moral power against a corrupt colonial regime. Attenborough ignores the Gandhi who while a young man in England dabbled in the arts and pastimes of Western civilization and then underwent the spiritual transformation that turned him into a saint. The omission is a reasonable one, for to make a movie about this Gandhi might strain...
...River and little hope for the country that bears the river's name. Though its debts are small on an international scale-only $5.1 billion-Zaïre is a financial basket case, a country so broke, so mismanaged, so beset by the global recession and, ultimately, so corrupt that it should be a perfect warning to lenders. Since 1976, Zaïre's debt has been rescheduled at least five times; last year only an estimated $250 million of $946 million due in debt service was paid, and the chances of full repayment...