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...multimillion-dollar monthly graft payroll and a string of chilling murders--including that of a key rival's wife, whose head was reportedly severed and delivered in a box of dry ice--the Arellanos realized their audacious goal: to own the coveted stretch of desert from Tijuana to Mexicali. During a 1992 summit of Mexican druglords at a Sinaloa ranch, they raised the fees charged to others for using their turf. In response, rival druglord Joaquin (Chapo) Guzman sent gunmen to kill the Arellanos at a Puerto Vallarta disco. As bullets rained, the brothers escaped through a bathroom skylight (after...
Waldman acknowledges there are inherent limitations. There is no congregation. There is nothing tactile, nothing to taste or smell. Some rituals must occur in a certain place to have meaning - a cubicle doesn't make it. "Those who try to take 'real religion' and graft it online will indeed create a limp version of the real thing," he says. His opinion is echoed halfway across the world by Muthullah Tayeb, Web coordinator for islamonline.net. "We have to use this service for Muslims to know their religion and for non-Muslims to learn about Islam," he says. "But you cannot just...
...with the biggest protest in three months of political turmoil, removes the main check on the power of the business oligarchs to whom embattled President Leonid Kuchma is largely beholden. RESIGNED. CUMHUR ERSUMER, 48, Turkish Energy Minister and the highest-ranking official to step down over a graft scandal that partially triggered the country's economic crisis; in Ankara. Ersumer's announcement pushed Turkey's stock market up more than 7%. ARRESTED. ROBERT S. GORDON,42, former Cisco Systems executive accused of embezzling $10 million from the networking equipment maker and one of its smaller partners; in San Jose, California...
...trial in prison, away from the political base that remains loyal to him and hostile to the business, religious and political elites that ousted him. He may take some solace in that the special anti-corruption court that will hear his case has a poor record of convictions on graft charges; it failed to convict former president Ferdinand Marcos, who was accused of abuses far more serious than those ascribed to Estrada...
...Estrada's case may be something of a test of the depth of Arroyo's drive against corruption. His arrest is clearly designed to send a sharp message that corruption will not be tolerated, and yet graft has been deeply embedded in the power structure of the Philippines for decades. Attacking it will demand not only firm action against politicians on the take, but also against the tycoons offering the bribes. The former president has warned that bringing him to court will allow "the truth to come out," a signal to some of the powerful business interests that had previously...