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President Moi recently announced the latest in a string of attempts to convince donors that he is serious about cracking down on graft - the appointment of a team of corruption busters from Risk Advisory Group, a London firm that describes itself as an "independent investigations and intelligence consultancy." The team will make recommendations on how best to fight corruption. Many Kenyans are skeptical. "Stamping out corruption in this country is not really a matter of experts, it is about political leadership," says opposition M.P. Anyang Nyong...
...collaborated with such high-profile Mob informants as Joseph Valachi (The Valachi Papers, 1969), confidant to Vito Genovese, and Sammy (The Bull) Gravano (Underboss, 1997), whose testimony helped undo John Gotti. In between, Maas wrote the best-selling Serpico, about a steadfast New York City cop who exposed graft in the police ranks...
...return to Thailand, Thaksin embarked on a string of disastrous business endeavors. He joined the Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau and began teaching at police schools, his salary from the department coming to about $150 a month. While many police in Thailand are notorious for supplementing their income with graft and payoffs, Thaksin, to his credit, instead cooked up numerous business schemes, from going into the family silk business to producing and distributing films to buying and selling commodities to building condominiums. All of them were failures. This is the dark period he insists contributed the most to making...
...combat at least one aspect of the old policy--the corruption that accompanies it. In villages, officials slap fines on citizens with extra children and share profits with doctors who push patients to get sterilized. By bringing decisions closer to the grass-roots, Beijing hopes to eliminate graft...
...than seven minutes. They had the guy looking at his EKG. They had a guy working on sedating him. I cut his trousers off. He still had his sock as his tourniquet. He went right into surgery. They did the surgery, they didn't have to do the skin graft, they reconstructed the joint around his toe, they reattached the tendon. When we were at the hospital, the head of the infectious disease department was staying overnight for the first three days and sat down with me and said, 'Two weeks ago I had five kids who petted a Komodo...