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...from distant regions in big cases to reduce the chance that corrupt officials can rely on local connections to avoid punishment, fundamental weaknesses remain. Corruption-fighting efforts are subject to political interference, and watchdog powers of the press and citizens are limited. "The other side is missing," says Yan Sun, a political scientist at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York...
...comparison, Brazil's competitive outlook is often described as a day in the Ipanema sun. Lula--who has adhered so faithfully to orthodox fiscal policies that he has alienated his own leftist party--recently boasted that Brazil's $1 trillion economy, the world's 10th largest, "is going through an auspicious moment...
...than the rest of the population of 188 million, sucking investment from badly neglected areas like education. Says Renato Fragelli, director of the Graduate School of Economics at the Fundação Getulio Vargas think tank in Rio de Janeiro: "The time to fix a roof is when the sun shines--but when the sun shines, Brazilians go to the beach...
Historically, Australia felt little resentment about its colonial control by Britain and its sovereign. Its population was heavy with Irishmen and Irishwomen, but the resentments their ancestors had brought with them soon mellowed into ineffectuality in the antipodean sun, not much more than folk costume, once the chains of convictry were abolished. As a colony, we were content peaceably to fulfill our natural destiny, which was to supply Britain with cheap wheat and wool and (when required) with cannon fodder for wars against the Boer...
...Staff writer Angela A. Sun can be reached at asun@fas.harvard.edu...