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...continues unabated, as evidenced by the 1990s Goldenberg scandal - named for a company that allegedly exported nonexistent gold and then claimed export credits from the Central Bank. The financial scam cost Kenya at least $400 million and allegedly involved top officials and senior politicians close to President Daniel arap Moi. International donors have frozen funds earmarked for Kenya in large part because of the country's failure to set up an independent anticorruption body...
...many of the foreign investors who rushed in during the early 90s, beguiled by the Communist Party's stated policy of doi moi, or "renovation," turned around and got right back on the plane after confronting Vietnam's murky system of permits and patronage, where corruption flourished and routine economic data were deemed state secrets. Foreign investment has been declining since 1997, and economists say the country's only hope is to get it back by pursuing real economic reforms. "We know we need to proceed with doi moi in a more dynamic and innovative way," Manh says...
Where Wall Street expense accounts once dictated the local economy, businesses are now reinventing themselves for the new downtown ruling class--the cops and the National Guard, the construction workers and the tourists. Like several other retailers, the family owners of Laotian restaurant Mangez Avec Moi supplement their diminished income by selling F.D.N.Y. T shirts and hats on weekends. Moran's, an Irish steak house on the opposite end of the district, replaced its upscale menu with mozzarella sticks, potato skins and chicken fingers. "We couldn't offer a stuffed sole for $35 or a porterhouse," says Abby Lydon...
...color, design and pop music from mad Aussie Baz Luhrmann. In the age of Media Cool, this recklessly romantic burst of kinetic excess offended nice sensibilities (see next page) even as it launched other viewers into rapture. I'm with the rapt. The movie asks, Moulin Rouge-ez avec moi ce soir? I say, Sure. All night long...
...orgasmic swirl of color, design and pop music from mad Aussie Baz Luhrmann. In the age of Media Cool, this recklessly romantic burst of kinetic excess offended nice sensibilities even as it launched other viewers into rapture. I'm with the rapt. The movie asks, Moulin Rouge-ez avec moi ce soir? I say, Sure. All night long...