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...most of the inspiration from Mexico City's infamous Santa Marta women's prison. The result is a series that is as grim, bloody and chaotic as actual Latin American prisons; it is world where children live with their mothers behind bars until they are six, where corruption is rife and where killings are commonplace. But aside from portraying the misery of prison life, the producers also aimed to forge the kind of compulsive dramas that will attract Mexican TV fans. "We certainly understand drama in Latin America and that is what makes the telenovelas so popular," said executive producer...
...Kenya, a country where corruption is rife and ministers use their power chiefly as a means of enriching themselves, it was no surprise to many civil society groups that leaders would see Cabinet ministries not as platforms from which to govern effectively, but as prizes to be handed out to loyal followers. "If you look at the opposition and government, these are people who a few years ago were saying, 'We need a lean Cabinet, we need to rein in government expenditures,'" said Stephen Lugalia, chairman of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya. "These are very knowledgeable people...
...movie, on April 1 the Pentagon declassified a key memo used to justify the abuse of prisoners by the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. Completed six days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the full text of the 81-page document is rife with shockingly broad edicts about prisoner treatment, like this barely constitutional chestnut: "In wartime, it is for the President alone to decide what methods to use to prevail against the enemy...
...State seals across the country are rife with the conflicted imagery of the periods in which they were produced. Minnesota and North Dakota both feature caricatured Native Americans riding away into the sunset. Florida’s depicts a native Seminole woman ironically juxtaposed alongside the Christian maxim “In God We Trust.” Not a single state seal features an African-American...
...facedness insults their intelligence. Without their support, Spitzer would have had little hope of passing legislation. Just as stagnancy stalled the federal government after Bill Clinton’s sex scandal in the late nineties, so too would New York’s government have been rife with contention should he have remained governor The public outcry over Spitzer’s transgression rightly stems from the fact that not only were his actions illegal, but they were also treacherous. His constituency’s feeling of betrayal is made all the more potent by his duplicity, and his reputation...