They have programs for visitors that officials call "Poorism".
Unless this entrenched kleptocracy changes, the best we can hope for is that officials will be more careful and less ostentatious about their indiscretions in the future.
In some quarters, there is an almost aesthetic distaste for the idea that officials — part-time employees!
A lawyer for the village, Edwin Matthews, said that officials were searching for the missing records.
Stephen Morello, a spokesman for Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein, said that officials were confident there would be enough teachers.
A spokeswoman for the F.D.A., Karen Riley, said that officials there had not seen the G.A.O.
The reason for this is that "official" campaigns are limited in the amount of money they can raise.
There is, for example, little question that official corruption exists, though few politicians have been prosecuted.
Some London local authorities, for example, have argued that official population estimates from the census considerably underestimate their true population.
They didn't get the pay-fors that they wanted," the official said of Republicans.
