MISSOURI WATCH: THE EVOLUTION OF GAMBLING CORRUPTION

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Sunday, February 5, 1995

Aristophanes was correct, you know, when he declared that man's corruption comes not all at once, but by slow degrees, until total corruption is complete. The same can be said for many of the public and political programs in society today, and perhaps nothing better illustrates this fact more than a report issued the other day by the Missouri Gaming Commission.

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