21.   ONCE AGAIN, the corrupt system of financing political campaigns has won out over a modest effort to reform it.

22.   Other companies have been mired in the corrupt legal system.

23.   Others were funneled into a poorly regulated, corrupt system by which thousands of Salvadoran children were adopted by American and European families.

24.   Some people believe we have passed the point of no return and suggest that we are not dealing with a compromised system but a corrupt system.

25.   Such plots, which pit a well-meaning outsider against a vastly corrupt political system, have another effect.

26.   State-by-state, up-from-the-bottom reform is the only way our corrupt system of campaign funding will be brought to heel.

27.   The amount of Nigerian talent is incredible but a corrupt political system often has sabotaged the team.

28.   The escapee, whose naked body hangs bruised and bleeding from the torture, may be seen as a modern-day Jesus Christ sacrificed by a corrupt system.

29.   The failure of Congress to fix this corrupt system deserves to be a major election issue.

30.   The Nixon vs. Shrink case underscores that, all along, Congress has had the power to clean up the increasingly corrupt system of contributions.