Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After his first year at The Times, Meislin switched jobs, becoming a reporter trainee. He showed early promise. In some of his earliest journalism, he discovered that money intended for a school lunch program was, in fact, being diverted by corrupt administrators...
...computer skills. Others do it for sport or profit or the fun of committing large-scale vandalism. And for a growing number, the motivation is ideological or nationalistic. Cybercops have begun focusing on a small number of hacker havens--similar to money-laundering havens--where lax or nonexistent laws, corrupt and incompetent authorities, and adept programmers conspire to pose a threat to computer systems worldwide...
...cushy, mostly white suburb 20 miles away, he beat a 16-year incumbent in Newark. Through a series of grandiose gestures, he earned the contempt of almost every other Newark politico. But he won attention, and loyalty, from many locals who had given up on the city's notoriously corrupt political machine. "He is the most exciting elected official in Newark in the past generation," says Clement Price, a Rutgers University history professor. "He's fearless, if not reckless...
...Baghdad to sleepy Muscat and Manama, from landlocked Amman to seafront Algiers. Oh, and Jerusalem too. Syria, Libya and Iraq will witness the deepest transformations for the simple reason that their eccentric ideologies are the most bankrupt--and the most out of synch with their people. Their institutions are corrupt. And their economies are moribund...
...Cletus, the movie guts the one aspect of the show that made it more than a cornpone car chase--two good ole boys "fightin' the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods," as the theme song (which the movie has jettisoned) said. The Dukes' eight-cylinder jousts with the corrupt Boss Hogg and his henchmen showed how antiestablishmentarianism had percolated, post-Watergate, into America's most conservative precincts, prefiguring the antigovernment politics of the coming decades (whereas the movie just shows that John Schneider and Tom Wopat need to fire their agents). Look at the Dukes' hot rod, the General...