• In reality, skulduggery is probably easier to monitor in a mega-mosque than in a backstreet outfit.

    ECONOMIST: London's mega-mosque

  • Skulduggery or outright theft is indicated, an outrage in the most open financial markets in the world.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • While skulduggery is possible, the more realistic problem with Olympic judging is conscious or unconscious national bias.

    WSJ: Removing Judges' Bias Is Olympic-Size Challenge

  • He now tends to be blamed for all manner of political skulduggery, of which he is almost certainly innocent.

    ECONOMIST: Germany��s new man for the Balkans

  • This has the dual effect of absolving him from financial skulduggery, and of increasing his chances of becoming president.

    ECONOMIST: Mr Clean

  • He is accused of undermining the state by allegedly giving Mr Chikane a top-secret document believed to contain details of skulduggery.

    ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe's diamonds

  • The leaked documents, which can now be used in court, reveal an astonishing tale of skulduggery, albeit in an anti-terrorist cause.

    ECONOMIST: Spain

  • In the minds of many ordinary Australians, however, much of this hard work has been sullied by skulduggery involving Olympic officials.

    ECONOMIST: Australia: Olympian loss | The

  • And without changes in the current, complex tax code, which practically encourages companies to play games, many think the skulduggery will continue.

    CNN: More reform and less hot air

  • Russian journalist Viktor Balagadde, who writes for the newspaper Kommersant UK, notes that neither man shied away from certain accusations of skulduggery.

    BBC: Uncovered: Trial of the oligarchs

  • Moreover, many admirers of CSR confuse the sort of creative destruction that makes us all richer, in the long run, with corporate skulduggery.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • At last, Peruvians can expect independent investigation of all this skulduggery.

    ECONOMIST: Peru

  • Perhaps most pernicious of all is the fact that the Clinton-Gore team has delayed by years the availability of robust anti-missile defenses with budgetary shenanigans and bureaucratic skulduggery.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Protect Americans Now

  • Some skulduggery still comes from people faking or exaggerating injuries.

    FORBES: Workers' Con

  • For a book that takes an admirably unpreachy approach to skulduggery on both sides, the ending is a little jingoistic: did all Uncle Sam's enemies really need to buy it?

    ECONOMIST: Robert Littell's 13th novel is creeping up on America��fast

  • Yet the timing of the judgment, plus the sweeping move to shut the legislature rather than call a partial re-election, suggested at least a disregard for democracy, and at worst skulduggery.

    ECONOMIST: Turmoil in Egypt

  • But with little accountability come opportunities for skulduggery.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Hitchcock and his scenarists (Charles Bennett, Alma Reville, Ian Hay, and Jesse Lasky, Jr.) scatter clues like gum wrappers as Ashenden and the General visit Switzerland to find an enemy agent whose skulduggery affects negotiations under way in Palestine.

    NEWYORKER: Secret Agent

  • Scoops are one thing, skulduggery another.

    ECONOMIST: Life in the global gutter

  • Gregory Earls , two former Kmart (otc: KMRTQ - news - people ) executives and Adelphia Communications (otc: ADELQ - news - people ) founder John Rigas , all of whom have been accused of skulduggery.

    FORBES: Will Waksal End Up In Club Fed?

  • By the same token, a Mossad source says that cloak-and-dagger operations still have their uses, even though ultra-modern electronic and biometric skills, used with surprising efficiency (in Israeli eyes) by Dubai's police, make such operations, involving wigged disguises and old-style skulduggery, harder to pull off.

    ECONOMIST: Israel's controversial intelligence service: Does Mossad really make Israel safer? | The

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