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...Orleans government like a business. He eliminated a $25 million budget deficit, renegotiated many municipal contracts on more favorable terms and cut red tape by putting applications for permits and other requests online. He won high marks for an anticorruption drive that targeted notorious centers of graft like the Taxicab Bureau and resulted in the arrests of many low-level city officials...
...attitude is that family comes last" [June 13]. Arroyo must rise above the political turmoil and the government's instability and show her true worth. The cure for this government's malady is not a constitutional convention or new tax laws. The country will be stable only when graft, nepotism and all forms of corruption are tossed into the waste bin. Arroyo has the makings of a great President if only she would act with faith, honesty and patriotism. Albert Tan Makati City, the Philippines...
...says, "to find out what I was made of." Eshun chronicles his travels - visiting forts, braving the not-so-wild elephants of a national park - with humour and insight. The crux of the book is Eshun's discovery about his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Joseph de Graft, a Dutch slave trader and an ancestor of Eshun's on his mother's side, settled in Ghana in the 1750s and married a local chief's daughter. When De Graft left for the Netherlands, his slave-trading business continued to thrive, maintained by his oldest son. "What's it like...
...became the first person in the colony to attend university abroad, in Edinburgh, where, says a long-time observer of Tanzanian affairs, "he was captured by the ideology of the British Labor Party at the time. He is deeply involved in Fabian socialist principles, which he believed he could graft onto the fabric of Tanzanian village life." A lifelong Roman Catholic, Nyerere was also influenced by the social activism of Africa's Maryknoll missionaries...
Acting as midwife to China's difficult economic rebirth can be financially dangerous. The country's legal and management landscape is murky. Disputes between Chinese managers and their Western backers are commonplace, while graft and corruption are rampant. But for these leaders, the art of the Chinese deal is about building a modern, civilized society. "Foreign investors who bring money and technology to private domestic firms are doing exactly the right thing," says Yasheng Huang, author of Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment in the Reform Era. "If you can structure your investment so that you take advantage of China...