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A reader comment in France's "Le Monde" refers to corruption in that country as "pretty marginal." I don't know that person's points of reference or comparison, but the way I remember it, corruption (and a few other things, to be honest) helped bring down two French governments in a 12-year span (1981-1993). Do we even have anything remotely close in the U.S. or other Western democracies in the past quarter-century or so?