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...respected academic and the head of Bangladesh's chapter of Transparency International, which once ranked the country the most corrupt in the world. "Public funds were being extorted, embezzled, misused in all sorts of ways." Prominent figures in both parties have been charged for crimes ranging from tax fraud to murder; dozens of cases prosecuting politicians on graft are ongoing...
...seems that TIME condones illegal immigration. Your Postcard writer refers repeatedly to "immigrants" without seeing the need to attach the adjective "illegal." The term "criminals" is presented as something only "angry residents" call these people, who have broken U.S. immigration and identity-fraud laws. While no American should take joy in the pain resulting from crackdowns on illegal immigration, the illegals accepted the risks of being caught when they entered the country. Before the law can be reviewed or changed, it needs to be enforced. I can respect people who suggest changes to our immigration laws, even if I disagree...
...blame Israelis for being disgusted with their politicians? A sex scandal brought down the last President; a former Finance Minister faces indictment over alleged fraud, theft and money-laundering; and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may be indicted for taking more than $150,000, mostly in cash, from a New York businessman. A popular bumper sticker says, OLMERT, YOU DISGUST ME. The deepening sense of odium is reflected in Olmert's single-digit popularity ratings. He may be forced to resign within weeks, and already politicians have begun to handicap the succession...
...carpetbagger.” After briefly leaving politics to build a legal practice, Booker returned to Newark politics in 2006, winning the mayoral election by a landslide. His opponent from 2002, who served as mayor of Newark for two decades, was convicted of five counts of fraud in April from charges stemming from land deals he had made in office. Booker’s place in the political spotlight is nearly as closely monitored as that of other Ivy-league educated, black politicians—namely Barack Obama, n Law School graduate who the mayor has vocally supported...
...Minister Rachida Dati on Monday ordered an appeal to a court decision annulling a Muslim couple's marriage on the grounds that the wife had lied about being a virgin before the wedding, the acclaim was almost universal. The ruling's logic - essentially creating the legal concept of chastity fraud - was widely seen as an attack on women's rights that undermined decades of progress on sexual attitudes. The lower court's ruling seemed as well to have put Muslim religious concerns above France's strictly secular laws. But for the woman whose public repudiation sparked the controversy, Dati...