By comparison, the Stirling's shortlist, though not bare of fine architecture, seems largely an exercise in constrained worthiness, tainted this year by pathetically huffy charges of manipulation concerning the judging panel.
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How do you film a sweet kid like Maybelle, with no hair, in a hospital ward, having a tiger's features daubed onto her face by a parent, and not invite the charge of gross manipulation?
In the bad old days, when China's foreign reserves were soaring, the charge of currency manipulation had some credibility.
By then, the statutes of limitations for the accounting issues had passed, and the police focused on the more serious charge of debt manipulation.
But even before the ballots have been cast, charges of vote manipulation are being heard.
To head off such a disaster, in 1989 Drexel pleaded no contest to six charges of stock manipulation.
Mr. Kim, who was extradited to Seoul, is on trial on charges of stock manipulation, embezzlement and forgery.
Later in 2012, the bank was hit with for a further $1.5 billion in fines to settle charges of rate manipulation.
In another prominent case, Huang Guangyu, the former chairman of Gome Group, China's largest consumer electronics retailer, has been under arrest on charges of stock manipulation.
