Word: misbehavior
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...Gary Hart follies of the 1987-88 campaign left the issue unresolved. But the particulars of that episode established a standard few future candidate sex scandals could hope to match: the misbehavior was current. The perpetrator was virtually caught with his pants down. He had specifically invited scrutiny of his private life: "Follow me around, I don't care." And the behavior was deemed to be specifically relevant to pre-existing questions about the , candidate's "character." Since Hart was widely suspected of philandering, evidence that he actually did philander was admissible to the public debate. Evidence of philandering...
First, do not meet with the demonstrators. Doing so only rewards their misbehavior and encourages future disruptions. Tell them, as you have done in the past, to schedule an appointment like everyone else...
...course all novels are gossip novels, and most are rip-offs, generally of the author's friends and relatives. But the ethics of pilferage becomes woozy when too recognizable caricatures of dead grandees wallow in unlikely misbehavior. Ethical questions waft away, though, when the theft works. Then the stolen characters come to life; for instance, the dead King whom Shakespeare slurred as a bottled spider struts in his play as Richard...
Even if voters did not support every item on Ronald Reagan's foreign policy agenda--such as his unpopular alliance with the Nicaraguan contras--they were reassured by his stalwart defense of America's national security. Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and the recent misbehavior of the Soviet Union have reminded voters of the need for strong leadership and firm convictions. The amusing image of Michael Dukakis test-driving an army tank during his 1988 campaign is a powerful illustration of the Democrats' failure to offer either...
...psychologist and therapist Stanton Peele, author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control, rejects the idea of addiction as a disease and questions the A.A. 12-step model's effectiveness. He charges, "We no longer have a moral basis on which to disapprove of, or respond to, misbehavior. We have given self-declared addicts their defense: they were blinded by their disease." He also criticizes the underlying theory shared by Beattie and others. "It's ironic and humorous that the main way people define their problems is that they help others too much. With homelessness...