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...South Koreans have seen corruption crackdowns before. The country's traditional ties between government and industry breed an incestuous system of mutual back scratching that is rife with under-the-table payouts. Winning office is expensive?political analysts estimate that Roh's campaign cost at least $125 million, more than that of U.S. President George W. Bush?but tough campaign-financing laws limit the money that can be raised legally from deep-pocket contributors to $208,000 each. Says Roh Kwan Kyu, budget and accounting committee chairman for the Millennium Democratic Party (under whose banner Roh ran for the presidency...
...siloviki and unnerving the Family. One key figure associated with the Family, the head of the presidential administration, Alexander Voloshin, resigned a few days after Khodorkovsky's arrest. Another, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, is so disaffected that his departure is only a matter of time. Speculation is rife that he may even run against Putin in next March's presidential race. But the immediate battlefield is the Duma. As one faithful Kremlin mouthpiece, journalist Mikhail Leontyev, remarked on state-controlled TV: "Who would have thought that real politics would suddenly emerge in this country?" The Duma has not been known...
...title of the novel is a reference to comic-book hero Superman’s isolated hideaway, and Lethem’s novel is rife with talk of comic books as well. “Marvel Comics had it right,” Lethem writes, “the world was all secret names, you only needed to uncover your...
...produce more fairness in the Ad Board process. Adding token students to a board of dozens of administrators might bring to a quaint advisory capacity that helps the Ad Board nail down the reality of student life at Harvard, but their position as peers of defendants—rife with the potential of conflicts of interest and breeches of confidentiality—is disconcerting. The Ad Board is a gravely serious institution, so much so that it cannot be left to students who exist on the same social plane as the accused...
...active participation and support. The U.S. must remember after all, that it is the most important member of the world organization and that our role will be essential far beyond protecting the continuity and momentum of what we have already undertaken. The U.N. offers no panacea, indeed it is rife with limitations and flaws, and is a risky bet for running the show. But what we are dealing with here is an enormously problematic challenge and there is no way to do it well or to guarantee success. The point is that the U.N. is more likely do it better...