Increasingly, some Chinese officials are saying: It's O.K. to be a little bit corrupt, when others are so much more corrupt than you.
For example, Mr. Gore would eliminate all forms of soft money -- corporate, labor and individual contributions -- whereas Mr. Bush would allow the large individual contributions that have done so much to corrupt the system.
Robert Rubin, Greenspan's enabler and partner in this disaster, is the reigning champion of the Wall Street-Washington revolving door that has done so much to corrupt both Wall Street and Washington.
This point is reiterated by Miller [ 27] who states when describing corrupt behaviours in Eastern Europe that it is "not so much the morally corrupt few, as the behaviourally corruptible many" who are the problem.
As Hollywood has co-opted (and arguably corrupted) so much of the geek canon in recent years, the line between true-nerd and faux-nerd has become blurred to the point of illegibility.
How can they gamble so much on the corrupt, enfeebled and barely legitimate government of President Karzai?
Once he crosses over, though, he's in danger of being corrupted, not so much by unlimited access to sex, drugs and stardom as by the cynical, businesslike attitude that governs the manufacture of rock-star glamour.
The danger of new media is not so much whether the content is corrupting or enlightening, the problem is that it eats away at all of our fundamental oppositions between truth and reality, technology and nature, self and other, and memory and perception.
His entourage was famously corrupt — so much so that he had been known in the press as Pasha Mercedes.
The explosive rise in violent, extreme porn is not due to evil, twisted, malicious forces within the porn industry, and it's not due to the fact that human beings have all become so much more depraved and corrupt.
