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...would be double the official $481 billion if the country's vast black economy were also taken into account. And while the nation fares slightly better than adjacent Pakistan and Bangladesh in terms of corruption, this is hardly an upstanding neighborhood. Each year, Transparency International (TI), an anticorruption watchdog, evaluates the world's countries according to how graft-free their societies are. This year India ranked 83rd, Pakistan 102nd, and Bangladesh, at 133rd, was dead last. With the world's second largest population and Asia's third largest economy, the size of Indian officialdom's graft is staggering. According...
...accept the limits. While he probably won?t match Bush?s likely $200 million warchest, he can raise a lot more than $45 million if he keeps up his current pace. And even the biggest advocates of campaign finance reform are giving him a pass on this issue. Watchdog Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21 said he couldn?t blame Dean because of Bush?s decision to opt out. While Dean?s opponents accused him of hypocrisy, most admitted privately they wish they had the same luxury. Campaign advisors for John Kerry and Wes Clark have said they...
Harvard is a founding member of the Fair Labor association, a competing watchdog group that HSAS claims is not independent enough from the industries it regulates...
...efforts of Jordan's King Abdullah to facilitate back-channel communication between Washington and Tehran. Unlike North Korea, which, if anything, exaggerates its nuclear weapons capability, Iran insists it has no clandestine bomb program. But IAEA investigations have found evidence of secret uranium enrichment facilities, and the UN nuclear watchdog had put Iran on notice to sign an agreement accepting more intrusive inspections by October 31, or else. Again, although hawkish elements in the Bush administration had favored a more vigorous pursuit of "regime-change" in Tehran, Washington has pursued the issue of Iran's nuclear capability primarily through...
...addition to first amendment watchdog groups, Greenfield said individual law schools signed onto the suit anonymously as part of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR...