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Something Has Gone Rotten in France's Top Caste
William Pfaff
International Herald Tribune
Tuesday, July 31, 2001
PARIS The two fundamental institutions of modern government in
France - the Gaullist Fifth Republic's constitution a
[Far Eastern Economic Review]
Nothing Changes
Megawati Sukarnoputri began her presidency with promising signals
three months ago. That's over. The ruling elite, resting on
bureaucratic paralysis, has made sure that, according to one observer,
"it's an oligarchy, not a democracy"
By John McBeth/J
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Paris, Thursday, September 14, 2000
Secret Trials of Chinese Officials Begin
Agence France-Presse
XIAMEN, China - Trials in the biggest corruption scandal in Communist
China's history opened Wednesday with senior officials
[full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/21/world/21KORE.html ]
September 21, 2000
South Korean Aide Resigns Over Loan Accusations
By SAMUEL LEN
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 20 In the latest scandal involving high- ranking
members of the South Korean government, a close aide to Presiden
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One corrupt city shows the plague that afflicts all of China
John Pomfret The Washington Post
Friday, March 8, 2002
No. 1 problem
SHENYANG, China When investigators searched two country houses
belonging to Shenyang's mayor, they found $6 million wo
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The Yakuza Recession
SOMETIME DURING Japan's annual cherry-blossom festival last April, one
of Tokyo's top private economists held a meeting that would
reverberate across the Pacific and trigger alarm bells at the highest
levels in Washington. At his office in a glass skys
My mother's first cousin was one of the largest S&L banker in California
in the early 60s. After his bank collapsed in the mid 60s, my second
cousin who remained with the bank claimed that the bank had lent money on
virtually every brothel in San Francisco -- always lending far more than
the wort
