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...United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the U.S. Government attempting an antipiracy campaign by channeling funds through the same corrupt regime that allows and encourages this abominable behavior by its fishermen-pirates...
What does shading a rule have to do with shaving a point? "For at least 20 years now, recruiting practices in college basketball have been completely corrupt," says Bob Cousy, the great Celtics guard who coached at Boston College from 1963 through 1969. "When the example has been set by institutions, impressionable kids get the idea. Do it any way you can. Get the grade, get the votes, get to the top of the ladder-get the money. Should we be surprised if in the basketball games at school-or three or four years down the line in business-they...
...Carlos, the patriarch of the family, grew up in Cuba and, as a professor of history at the University of Havana, helped write his country's 1940 constitution. Nearly two decades later he found himself opposing both the corrupt regime of President Fulgencio Batista and the revolution headed by a former student of his named Fidel Castro. After Castro gained power on New Year's Day 1959, Don Carlos, his wife and stepdaughter fled the country and settled in Washington. Uva's boyfriend Jorge left Cuba to join Uva in 1961. That same year, the family moved...
Foreign executives have their own list of complaints. U.S. companies that wanted to build manufacturing facilities found their development plans mired in the corrupt and immobile government bureaucracy. Investors have also been turned away by the continued deterioration of vital services. Making telephone calls can take half a day because connections are poor. Water taps are often dry, and whole neighborhoods are frequently inundated with sewage. Public transportation, especially in Cairo, is badly overcrowded and unreliable...
...moral energy here, actually a righteous and unco-optable underdog, actually a clear, courageous and sharp challenge to all the bullshit. May be no other episode matches the Polish revolution of 1980-81 for demonstrating the power of people to act peacefully, but forcefully, to overturn the old and corrupt; for all its technical flaws, this movie captures the spirit and the fact of that revolution and should be seen by anyone who gives a damn about that country or this...