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...true from New Jersey to Nigeria, when rivers of fresh concrete flow, corruption is never far away?especially when local officials are chronically underpaid (the salary of a typical township magistrate in China is about $250 a month before bonuses and adjustments). For a local official to crack down on corruption can mean that cherished development projects get delayed. Indeed, in Lianjiang, Huang's expos? has stalled the county's first apartment complex financed by outside investors. "If this becomes a big scandal, nobody will want to invest there again," says a senior Party member in Fuzhou, the provincial capital...
...Crimson could not crack the Wolverine defense and managed only one shot in the entire course of the second period...
...last year’s Student Mental Health Task Force. The task force, which included doctors, administrators and students, was convened in response to administrators’ concerns that the College’s mental health resources were difficult to navigate and allowed some students to slip through the crack...
WRITING A BOOK IS SO RETRO. SHOULDN'T YOU BE BLOGGING OR SOMETHING? I can't. It's too hip. Then I'd have to get a BlackBerry, and I'm wired in, and next thing you know, I'm at a Black-Eyed Peas concert with a crack problem. I just can't go down that road...
NOMINATED. MARION BARRY, 68, former Washington mayor infamous for being caught smoking crack on an FBI videotape; as the Democratic candidate for a city council seat; in a primary election in Washington. After serving six months in prison for his drug conviction, he made his first political comeback in 1992, winning a council seat and using it as a springboard to reelection as mayor...