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...corrupt, the most dramatic aspect of Ahmed's rule is his antigraft campaign against the establishment. So far, more than 160 senior politicians, top civil servants and security officials have been arrested on suspicion of graft and other economic crimes. The roundup has netted former ministers from the two main political parties and, most recently, even Zia's own son Tareque Rahman. Last week Rahman, 40, appeared in court to face a charge (which he denies) that he extorted $147,000 from the owner of a Dhaka construction firm. The government has also frozen hundreds of millions of dollars...
...Could either of the two main parties have gone after corruption as you have? A nonparty caretaker government doesn't suffer from the burdens of political patronage. Whether or not the political parties could have done so, I do not know. But they certainly lacked the political will and the courage in the past...
...fired last summer. The restructuring plan Gallois unveiled seeks to eliminate duplication and reduce the 16 manufacturing plants to 10. His plan carefully distributes the job cuts. Immediately, politicians and unions in France and Germany started sniping over which side should bear the biggest burden. The three main candidates in the current French presidential-election campaign then promised more intrusion in Airbus' affairs...
...plan. “President Bok obviously brings a lot of Harvard knowledge,” Gordon says. “He’s been listening to a lot of Allston issues and helping us out with a lot of decisions.” Bok said that his main goal had been “to keep the momentum going” so that the project wouldn’t stall during his year-long tenure. LOW-PROFILE PRESIDENTThough many students might not see Bok at House study breaks, the interim president said he hopes that he can leave...
...delayed since the project began, but I can’t complain—the musky, old-world luster we have every right to expect isn’t built in a day. The moment I get anxious about another abrogated deadline, I just assume they hit a water main putting in the Roman baths. I find it’s an effective stress reducer...