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Even in the cities and towns, Pol Pot's forces enjoy some support among intellectuals. Their pitch is that only they can root out the rampant corruption of the present regime and force some 500,000 hated ethnic Vietnamese from the country. Says a 24-year-old university student: "The Khmer Rouge can do some things better than the government. They can abolish corruption. They can ensure Cambodia's sovereignty...
...battle itself forms only about half of Svenson's narrative. Battlefield is, after all, not the story of a single event but the story of a place. As Svenson builds his new house there, successfully harvests a crop of hay, and tries to eliminate the rampant groundhog population, he comes to recognize that his land, like the battle which took place there, is unique. His farm and the surrounding land have their own historical evolution, like any other part of the American landscape, which happens to have been punctuated by the military confrontation which took place there in June...
...managed elephant herds, including Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana, are eager to sell ivory, just as Norway and Japan want to kill whales. But conservationists are loath to exempt specific nations from the ivory-trade ban for fear that any traffic in tusks will bring a reprise of the rampant cheating that occurred before sales became illegal...
...controversy is an unusually spectacular example of a larger dirty secret of all of today's entertainment businesses: with the same powerful agents and lawyers regularly representing performers and producers and executives on all sides of the negotiating table, real and potential conflicts of interest are chronic and rampant -- so much so that the wheeler-dealers have a hard time taking outsiders' ethical qualms seriously. "The only way to avoid the appearance of potential conflict of interest in this business," says CAA's & president, Ron Meyer, "is to represent only one client. And then, of course, you'd have...
Western experts do not dispute the President's claims entirely. But Egypt would face a fundamentalist threat even if Iran and Sudan did not exist. Homegrown poverty, overpopulation, poor housing and rampant corruption would almost certainly stir radicalism and unrest without any agitation from outside...