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...tenures were also marked by rampant corruption and her failure to carry through more ambitious reform. Her government was twice dismissed because of accusations of corruption. The rings of bribery, patronage, and money-laundering centered on her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who garnered the nickname “Mister Ten Percent” due to his cut on all government contracts. In 2004, Swiss magistrates found both Bhutto and Zardari guilty of money laundering. Other evidence has amassed in France and Poland indicating extensive investments and shady deals. In one striking case, Pakistani investigators reportedly found that a gold dealer...
...abandoned daughter from The Winter's Tale, Perdita can't reconcile the vast Outback landscape of her childhood with the transported English culture of her schooling-"all this life, all this huge unelaborated life, told her there was more on heaven and earth than was dreamt of by Mister Shakespeare." Neglected by her self-absorbed parents, Perdita befriends the family's Aboriginal servant Mary and a different education begins. Perdita learns to read "the chevron sand-lines of lizards... The ripples of departed snakes, the scroll shapes and mounds and pathways of bush tucker-all that had been inscribed there...
...walking past the hundreds of booths and brushing off the clutching hands and pleas to "come inside, mister, just looking," I noticed a series of very serious, official-looking documents pasted up prominently on the wall near the exit. Scanning them, I realized they were the proudly posted announcement of an earlier court judgment in which 23 prominent brand manufacturers sued the Silk Market for counterfeiting. On January 17 the Chaoyang district court in Beijing weighed in with the head-snapping pronouncement that there was not enough evidence of counterfeiting at the Silk Market to convict. As I stood there...
...that would portray Healey in a positive light as opposed to Patrick in a negative light, it wasn’t really going to lead to any long term gains,” Winters said yesterday. Winters added that Patrick’s reputation as a “mister good guy” allowed the candidate to “take the high road.” Winters also said that he thinks this year’s gubernatorial campaign has shown the power of Patrick’s broad-based volunteer efforts in contrast to Healey?...
...comic-strip approach to international affairs." A product of Venezuela's llanos, or rural plains, Chvez patterns his style after the straight-talking llaneros (cowboys) he grew up with. (One of his favorite American films is Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider.) Chvez is fond of calling Bush "Mister Danger," a reference to a quintessential Ugly American in Venezuela's best-known novel, Doa Brbara, a torrid story set not far from where Chvez was raised. And the "devil" barb, he points out, stems from a legend about a llanero who beats Satan in a singing...