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...sidestepped all the problems of making the music carry the plot by keeping the 17-strong cast and band onstage throughout. Between them, in thickest Jamaican patois and the merest whiff of ganja smoke, they summon the saucy spirit of the Kingston dancehall one minute, the legend of the outlaw the next. Best of all they rip through glorious renditions of hit after hit. Make room, Mamma Mia! For as sure as the sun will shine, The Harder They Come is gonna get its share...
...over a specific case highlights the prominence of the fight against corruption. The o.e.c.d.'s 30 rich country members signed an antibribery convention in 1997 after years of difficult negotiation and several failed attempts by others to construct something similar. That 1997 convention - under which signatories pledge themselves to outlaw bribery of foreign public officials in international business - has since become the cornerstone of international antibribery policy; six non-o.e.c.d. members, including Brazil and Argentina , have also signed...
...business. The World Bank Institute, the bank's in-house think tank, estimates that more than $1 trillion is paid in bribes each year, lining the pockets of officials at the expense of economies, distorting competition and giving business a bad name the world over. The U.S. tried to outlaw the habit with its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which makes it unlawful for any American firm to make a corrupt payment to a foreign official. But that was long the exception; many other rich countries simply turned a blind eye. In Germany and Luxembourg , bribes used...
...elected representative of the Northern Ireland assembly, Martin McGuinness, the longtime face of the Irish Republican Army, never gave up his basic distrust of the troubled province's Protestant police force. A grandfather with a receding hairline and a twinkling eye, he still presented himself as a kind of outlaw, reminiscing about the days he spent "on the run" - hiding from the police that many of Northern Ireland's Catholics viewed as anything but an impartial keeper of the peace...
...such implacable efforts to wipe out Gideon (Pierce Brosnan). By the time the chase has descended to the desert's burning sands, we learn that the latter was a once-peaceful farmer whose family was wiped out by Civil War irregulars led by Neeson (shades of the much better outlaw Josie Wales). Gideon will have his vengeance if possible, Carver will defend himself by relentlessly attacking him. But the lone victim is a clever cuss, and succeeds in wiping out all of his pursuers save Carver. The fleeing and fighting is intermittently interesting, but one is more interested, frankly...