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Critics, especially in the PRD, insist that Mexican election officials could have resolved the count as early as Monday morning without throwing the nation - and the financial markets - into days of uncertainty. But those authorities appear more overwhelmed than crooked. Mexico is still a fledgling democracy at best. And whoever...
And where were the cops? Quite a few were busy taking bribes. It was no secret that crooked officers shared their illegal profits with an equally corrupt Democratic political club, Tammany Hall. But on May 6, 1895, Republican mayor William Strong appointed to the city's four-man board of...
Go to San Francisco's Hotel Utah, where, says one musician's website, "me and my band Crooked Roads hosts a night of Dylan songs and trivia with prizes."
DIED. Sir Jack Cater, 84, Hong Kong corruption-fighter widely credited with eliminating endemic graft in the then colony in the 1970s; on Britain's Channel Island of Guernsey. As head of the newly formed Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), the ex-Royal Air Force squadron leader cracked down on...
His persecution may have actually helped Khodorkovsky's image in the eyes of ordinary Russians. Unlike other oligarchs who went abroad with the billions they'd amassed during the Yeltsin years, the Yukos tycoon returned to face a trial widely viewed as crooked, and ultimately prison. In many an eye...