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India: Beating corruption with Right to Information

By Mon, May 02, 2011 9:56AM UTC View Comments

It may after all be unnecessary to make bribe-giving legal, a controversial suggestion made by Cornell University economist Kaushik Basu to fight rampant, and growing, corruption in India. Yale researchers have uncovered a far simpler, cheaper, expeditious and surprisingly effective way to fight the scourge. It is so simple an idea that social activists, and...

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Shin Jeong-ah, Korea’s favorite sex scandal subject, returns

By Thu, Mar 31, 2011 2:17AM UTC View Comments Shin Jeong-ah. Pic: AP.

In 2007 Shin Jeong-ah had everything a girl could want; money, respect, a good job… … and a boyfriend who could provide her with money, respect and a good job. Shin was the youngest professor at Dongkuk University in Seoul and by all accounts a highly successful art curator, becoming head curator of the Sungkok Art Museum,...

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