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While we have been aware for some time of allegations that the DNC broke the law by accepting contributions from individuals with strong ties to Southeast Asia and China, its questionable practices have failed to capture much public interest. Like Whitewater, the many details of the scandal make it ill-suited for captivating the masses in this age of the sound bite...
Understanding the ramifications of the DNC's overaggressive fundraising tactics involves learning the intricacies of campaign finance laws and the complex ties that the DNC contributors in question had with various Southeast Asian interests. These complications made it easy to dismiss the allegations as just another example of relatively innocuous unethical behavior by members of the Clinton administration...
...oversight of those policies are nonetheless disturbing. Clinton is a shrewd, seasoned politician who has surrounded himself with competent aides, so it is difficult to believe that neither he nor members of his staff ever questioned whether the DNC's many donors and solicitors with ties to Southeast Asian interests might be working with ulterior motives...
...style, captures the style of its generation, and can be read by bemused elders as a shrewd caricature of disaffected post-childhood wanderers desperate to avoid adulthood. Garland's characters are young European and American backpackers who circle like dead leaves in an eddy through the guesthouses of Southeast Asia: this month Lombok, next week or next month or in another life, Loh Liang or Zanskar. Garland writes as they travel, without emotion or opinion or allegiance. His narrator is an affectless young Englishman named Richard, who, in Thailand, comes upon a hand-drawn map that seems to locate...
Percy Barnevik is in full flight, his long arms flinging one transparency after another onto the overhead projector to show figures from the latest European Union study on global competitiveness. "Pitiful," he snaps at one slide on Europe's low investment in Southeast Asia. "We are clearly losing ground," he says, slapping down a chart on the dwindling European share of world trade. When he finishes his downbeat presentation at the E.U. headquarters in Brussels, a reporter asks if he has any fresh proposals to solve the problems. "We don't need any more bright ideas. There are lots...