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...President's poll ratings remain at a five-year low, and two of the big reasons are a discouraging war for which Cheney served as head hawk, and the indictment of Cheney's chief of staff in an investigation that sprang from a heavy-handed White House effort to discredit an annoying critic. The prosecutor's narrative makes tantalizing reference to one or more conversations Cheney had about the matter with the aide, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, which raises the possibility of a fight for the Vice President's testimony...
...prison on charges of taking $715,000 in bribes; in Fuzhou, China. Huang gained widespread popular support in August 2004, when the People's Daily website posted a letter from him describing corruption in Fujian province. Huang's supporters claim the conviction is part of an effort to discredit...
...While “homophobia” was begotten on college campuses, it has spread throughout political circles as gay rights advocates came to realize branding their opponents “homophobes” was a convenient way to discredit them...
...Kennedy School of Government, would not approve of that title: it’s not his style. “Taming American Power” is certainly far from being a political polemic. But Walt’s dispassionate scholarly approach is exactly what is needed to resoundingly discredit the Bush doctrine. In “Taming American Power,” Walt shows how the Bush administration’s foreign policy has damaged America’s standing in the world. Walt outlines a prescription for a more “mature” foreign policy. He wants...
Erin Brockovich-Ellis, the iconic environmental activist who drew widespread attention to water contamination in a community in California, was honored with the Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) most prestigious award yesterday, angering a lawyers’ group and others at the University who discredit the science behind Brockovich-Ellis’ activism.Brockovich-Ellis was a clerk at a law firm in Hinkley, Calif. when her investigations revealed that hundreds of people in a single neighborhood had been exposed to water contaminated with chromium-6, dumped there by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Brockovich convinced...