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Money is a lubricant that helps spin the wheels of government, but most politicians are discreet about how liberally the grease gets spread around. That's why it was so shocking when three of India's opposition-party lawmakers recently took the floor of India's Parliament, unzipped a black leather bag and, with TV cameras rolling, hauled out stacks of 1,000-rupee notes. The money, they claimed, represented bribes they had been offered by allies of the country's ruling Congress Party to withhold their ballots in a crucial July 22 vote of confidence. While allegations of "suitcase...
...Mandela would not be so lionized if he weren't black. The hype that surrounds him is based on the remorse of Western liberals for the sins of their great-great-great-grandfathers. Jerzy Frenkiel, Frederiksberg, Denmark...
...Olympics in Mexico City, the Australian silver medalist gazed at the flag rising in his honor. Behind him, history was being made. Tommie Smith and John Carlos used the occasion to protest their country's treatment of African Americans, each raising a gloved fist in the Black Power salute, a gesture of solidarity and defiance. Bowing to pressure from the International Olympic Committee, U.S. authorities sent the pair home to a firestorm of controversy...
...Carlos revealed he'd left his gloves at the village, it was Norman who suggested that the Americans share Smith's pair. Norman was never going to raise his own fist, but did wear a badge that said "Olympic Project for Human Rights", an organization that had threatened a black boycott of the '68 Games...
...Although the Kennedy name is almost inevitably invoked whenever Barack Obama is mentioned in the German media, there is more to his popularity. The cover of the current issue of Zitty, a local Berlin magazine, shows a photo of Obama accompanied by the headline "I'm black and that's a good thing" - a reference to Berlin's openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit, who strongly supported Obama's request to speak at the Brandenburg Gate and had once publicly announced, "I'm gay and that's a good thing." Jarring as that headline may be, it partly explains why Obama...