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By Nina Khrushcheva - Aug 01,2021
MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE — “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” Lord Acton wrote in a letter to an Anglican bishop in 1887. Acton was considering how religious historians should handle past crimes committed by the church’s leaders.
By Nina Khrushcheva - May 23,2021
MOSCOW — Until the cease-fire, the world’s attention was trained on Israel’s air strikes on Gaza, which may have suited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing trial on corruption charges. And Netanyahu is hardly the only populist leader in legal peril.


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