Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This picture of a man unfairly persecuted is aided by the image the press has today. The coverage of events ranging from the O.J. Simpsorr case to the Whitewater affair has led to a barrage of criticism against it. This in itself is not unusual, but the level of distrust is extremely high. Right now, that distrust is exactly what Quayle needs. He has the opportunity to play up the criticism he received from liberals and the press; he could create a backlash against them and look like a martyr for his cause...
Granted, in the great scheme of things, the Second Quiz Show Scandal is a trivial affair. But we would hope that Redford could at least, in some small way, practice what he preaches. As it stand, the film deserves two thumbs up. As it stands, the film deserves two thumps up. Redford, on the other hand, gets the finger...
...with the Simpson proceedings, a circus odor envelops the grand jury examining Cowlings' connection to the O.J. affair. Last week a man named John Dunton was jailed for refusing to testify. Dunton, who had earlier gone on television claiming that two men killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman and that a private eye hired to follow Nicole witnessed the murders, now said he would be killed if he talked. Anthony Pellicano, the private investigator who worked for Michael Jackson amid the pop star's tangle with child-abuse allegations, then emerged to deny that he was the private eye Dunton...
...Ebola affair and the emergence of AIDS illustrate how modern travel and global commerce can quickly spread disease. Germs once confined to certain regions may now pick up rides to all parts of the world. For example, the cholera plague that is currently sweeping Latin America arrived in the ballast tanks of a ship that brought tainted water from Asia. And the New England Journal of Medicine has reported two cases of malaria in New Jersey that were transmitted by local mosquitoes. The mosquitoes were probably infected when they bit human malaria victims who had immigrated from Latin America...
Even with the teamwork, however, cruising the townships was often a perilous affair. Well-armed government security forces used excessive firepower. The chaotic hand-to-hand street fighting between black factions involved AK-47s, spears and axes. "At a funeral some mourners caught one guy, hacked him, shot him, ran over him with a car and set him on fire," says Silva, describing a typical encounter. "My first photo showed this guy on the ground as the crowd told him they were going to kill him. We were lucky to get away...