This realization — that lawlessness, deceit, bribery, cronyism and impunity are deeply encoded within all aspects of Russian life — gave Mr. Friedman the idea to use a camera he had never tried before: a panoramic.
The savory, English-flecked patois in which he converses with the thugs is delightful, and there's a ready humor in his open enjoyment of deceit, bribery, and dirty deals.
So leaving out deceit and bribery, do you know which techniques actually work?
The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out — in 1949, after a four-year struggle — were keen to preserve their inheritance, and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
So it seems are bribery, deceit and the subversion of democracy.
With an ice-cold disdain for public opinion and an obsession worthy of Lenin, President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi rammed ObamaCare through the House by unprecedented parliamentary trickery, bribery and deceit.
Ida Tarbell, the greatest of the muckraking journalists, accused Standard Oil of building its empire on "fraud, deceit, special privilege, gross illegality, bribery, coercion, corruption, intimidation, espionage or outright terror".
Log-poaching and thievery, murder, deceit, injury, false documents, land-grabbing, shady deals and legal practices, bribery, corruption of government lawmakers, and more were part of the logging industry, early and late.
But more than anything else, Qaddafi is first and foremost a devilishly cunning survivor who, when bribery and co-option have not been possible, has consistently outsmarted his enemies using deceit and treachery.
This deceit never got easier.
