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…practice of graft, bribery and illicit patronage. Xi’s relentless anti-corruption campaign is altering how officials in government and managers in industry work, and even how they think. And let no one assume that Xi’s battle against corruption has been risk-free. Xi as the core...

L£/0 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS sixty years monitored government communications. It had also kept track of adversaries’ missile telemetry, submarine movements, and nuclear proliferation. The Snowden breach was not without precedent at the NSA. There had been two Russian spi...

DP: In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that’s the long term. Right now, American Muslims labor under Saudi and other influenc...

…sense of responsibility for the vulnerable and less fortunate. Basic standards of security for the elderly and poor and government investment in a more prosperous future, he said, can not only coexist with a tradition of “rugged individualists with a healthy skepticism of too muc...

…host of other practices that extremists see as forbidden under Islam. So yes, Hamas, like al Qaeda, talks of an Islamic government, but in practice it makes compromises, as its unity agreement with Abbas and his regime suggests. In power, Hamas has tried to Islamicize Gaza, and i...

…ified that emerging market reserve managers were developing an investment tranche, to diversify away from low- yielding government bonds and generate better risk adjusted returns. This year, low interest rates again led EM central banks to increase the level of the investment tra...

… What are the roots of this? Well there are the legitimate roots that go back to fear of an atomic decapitation of the government back in the Truman era, so legitimate COG planning goes back to Truman and Eisenhower, but the illegitimate use of COG to deal with any emergnecy you...

…r existed. So what that meant is that at a very early period in their history, the Chinese perfected strong, absolutist government. And that’s been a consistent pattern — high-quality, authoritarian government. And I think that continues up to the present. SHAFFER: Could we trac...

numbers of Israelis, and ultimately the government, had ensured a truly independent probe would now go ahead. But other ways in which the war had gone wrong were already glaringly apparent. Some were operational. It is true we ended up overcoming Palestinian and Syrian resistanc...

…r, John Rowland, in the 90s. The developer used his political connections to secure favorable contracts with the state government, allowing him to purchase government-owned property, among other things, according to the New York Times. To return the favor, Matthews allegedly bou...

…ity with Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese counterparts of sending Chinese students to the United States in 1977—78,1 PRC government authorities (like their Republican-era predecessors) have seen American universities as integral to China’s economic and scientific development. For...

… taxes on all the money and gifts and in-kind payments from Epstein that she's received or has kept that away from the government. Unlike Ms. Giuffre's tax information, defendant's tax information goes to our case in chief and is relevant evidence. On point number 13, we move...

…cize Olmert publicly when Israeli troops were in action. Two days in, in fact, I told a television interviewer that the government had every right to respond and was doing so effectively. Olmert phoned to thank me. When he, like Shimon, asked what I thought the government should...