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Washington, D.C.: America's Scandal CapitalBy Nicholas Stix ashington, D.C., is notorious for its crooks and human depravity - but its problems are not limited to the federal government. For the city of 572,000 inhabitants is plagued by the sort of systemic corruption and misery that is more typical of an African kleptocracy like dictator Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, than an American city. Washington's newest scandal has hit its teachers' union. The city with some of America's worst public schools has a teachers' union that has for years been run like an organized crime syndicate. Initially, the FBI charged that officers of...