Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idealistic intellectual types who associate smoking their choice of cigarettes with the ideal that "one person can change the world," and the desire to "see all the stars in the sky at the same time." But I suspect the phrase in the flyer hinted at something all the more corrupt because it is more sincere. It hinted at the idea to which philosophers like Nietzsche and writers like Hesse have accustomed us; that intensity of experience is all that is the point...
Faithfully following the blueprints of his military predecessors who have directly or indirectly controlled Pakistan for most of its existence, Musharraf claims the army reluctantly intervened to prevent an unscrupulous and corrupt political leadership from destabilizing the armed forces, the last remaining viable institution after Sharif had systematically eroded the autonomy and authority of the president, the parliament and the judiciary. Refusing to give a definite timetable for the restoration of a civilian, representative government, Musharraf claims that the military will withdraw to the barracks once it has prepared the grounds for a "true democracy," having eradicated all the ills...
...public high school teacher about the importance of American students, and especially citizens, possessing an awareness of international affairs. "Does it really matter to us what is going on in Kosovo or East Timor?" the teacher asked. The teacher decried the amount of American tax dollars devoted to supporting corrupt governments, sponsoring American military campaigns in other sovereign states or maintaining impotent international institutions such...
...society or a controlling spouse. Crazy in Alabama juxtaposes the fallout of two murders in a small Alabama town: the killing of an abusive husband by his Hollywood-bound wife and the murder of a young African-American boy during a peaceful sit-in at the hands of the corrupt town sheriff...
...North Star of whatever presidential hopes he still has these days, and here, finally, was his (and Russ Feingold?s) perennially quixotic bill, on the Senate floor for six days of full debate. The spate of pump-priming jeremiads about pork-barrel bills and soft-money corruption that McCain posted on his web site must have seemed utterly appropriate ? but not to Mitch McConnell. "Someone must be corrupt for there to be corruption," McConnell said on Thursday, challenging McCain to come forth with specific charges against individual senators. "How can there be corruption if no one is corrupt? That...