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...lawyers did," Turow says. As he continues, it becomes clear the program has indeed made him increasingly sympathetic--with the lawyers. Having defended "hundreds of other people who had committed the same offenses," he explains, "these lawyers could no longer rationalize to themselves that misbehavior is the effect of corrupt social structures, since husbands and wives and daughters and cousins of the same person would come in, all of whom would be perfectly admirable human beings, although they had existed under the same circumstances...
...West Virginia alone in the past two-and-a-half years. Clearly, the rank-and-file is dissatisfied with the leadership of Miller, who has seen the exodus of most of his staff over matters of union policy. There is no wistful feeling for the days of the corrupt Tony Boyle; and it is not the influx of too much democracy into the union, as some observers have suggested, but a simple feeling that perhaps Arnold Miller has lost touch with the membership...
...credit, Carr did not attack just the West. He also denounced Africa's own murderous dictators, self-seeking businessmen and corrupt politicians. This caused trouble in Kenya, where the All Africa Conference is based. Attorney General Charles Njonjo turned against Carr, branding him a meddler. Even though a palatial $2 million headquarters on government-donated land is due to open in Nairobi next October, Carr tried to pull the organization out of the country...
...South African security official and liaison for Uncle Remus. Muller is a courteous, unflappable professional who leads Castle to recall the warning of an old South African friend: "Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel, our worst enemies are the intelligent and the corrupt...
...fleeting interest in religious faith seems like a crack in the sidewalk that Greene is compelled to step on. Despite the title, compassion is not the novel's strong point. It is rather the author's bitterness and sense of inevitability about "the intelligent and the corrupt," the Mullers who talk calmly about final solutions and the agents who plan the murder of a colleague between mouthfuls of smoked trout. This may be familiar stuff, but after half a century of providing his special style of morose entertainment, Greene remains working proof that for writers, unlike athletes...