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02160 Cheating

Abramoff

Mary Allen was raised in a culture in which cheating brings less and less moral disapprobation. From Ken Lay and Enro and corporate abuse to Jack Abramoff and political shakedowns of American Indian communities to Tom DeLay who famously said, before his mug shot, that he hoped viewers of this photo might see Jesus in him. How did Mary Allen turn out to be the woman she is?
Rather than being an act that embarrasses and shames one these days, cheating seems at the highest levels of our system to be regarded increasingly as a virtue, a mark of shrewdness, a badge of honor that this person knows their way around.