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...basic and cheap - all you need is a hoop and a ball," says Jungen. So when he spotted a pair of the black, white and red sneakers in a Calgary sporting-goods store, the penny dropped: "I thought, holy s___, that's exactly like the Coastal [Indian] color scheme," he says. Prototypes is a tribute, in part, to the "pockets of the third world in Canada ? where artifacts for the native-art industry are produced." Guess that's something to ponder when you're browsing through the airport souvenir shop. www.vanartgallery.bc.ca
...Liberals have only themselves to blame for losing the upper hand. For the past two years, they have been dogged by revelations that a federal program was manipulated to create a Liberal-friendly slush fund and kickback scheme in the province of Quebec. A Nov. 1 report by a national commission exonerated Prime Minister Martin, but the scandal has left a lingering stench. "I'm tired of being screwed by the Liberals," says Gerry Gagné, 47, a lifelong Liberal supporter from Low, Que., in a now common refrain...
Before Katrina pounded New Orleans last summer, that city's longstanding reputation for graft was reinforced by Operation Wrinkled Robe, which uncovered a bribery scheme initiated by a bail-bonds company at a local courthouse. In addition to various officials in the Jefferson Parish sheriff's office, two state judges were convicted for their roles in helping steer business (i.e., prisoners) to the firm. In San Diego local government has been effectively frozen--and a city-council member has been convicted (although he remains free on appeal)--as a result of a scandal in which local officials accepted cash bribes...
...enforcement officials in Arizona have been charged with accepting bribes from FBI agents posing as Mexican drug smugglers. Towns in Florida and Connecticut--where Republican John Rowland quit the Governor's mansion in 2004 and went to jail last year for his part in a gifts-for-contracts scheme--are also charging their local officials. The FBI even had a local West Virginia politician facing corruption charges pose as a candidate in a state-legislature election in order to help uncover vote buying and other instances of election fraud. The phony candidate pulled out before the actual election, but when...
Israel's most divisive war is often laid at Sharon's feet: the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which he planned as Minister of Defense. One objective, running the P.L.O. out of Lebanon, was largely achieved, but the scheme to install in power the leader of the Lebanese Phalangist militia, a Christian group friendly to Israel, was a debacle. After Phalangist forces massacred as many as 800 men, women and children at the Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila, an Israeli inquiry concluded that Sharon bore "indirect" responsibility, forcing him to resign as Defense Minister. Sharon sued TIME...