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...happy marriage ("Sit back, relax and wait for the sweet embrace of death"). I also appreciated Eddie's flailing argument for dumping his bride for another woman. "The heart wants what it wants," he says, quoting Woody Allen's remark to Walter Isaacson of TIME during the 1992 scandal involving the filmmaker's affair with his stepdaughter Soon...
...women who took to writing or speaking—tackles the sensitive issue of rape while also discussing social attitudes towards female sexual behavior; the juxtaposition of the two creates what Ulrich calls a woman’s attempt to toe the line between invisibility and scandal. “Slaves in the Attic” discusses the coupling of the abolitionist movement with the suffrage movement. Ulrich’s originality is most evident in her portrait of “the four Harriets,” figures who reveal society’s varying levels of awareness...
...Should investigators be able to build a case to prosecute in the EADS scandal, lawyer Maréchal says they face the daunting task of proving executives had inside knowledge that motivated their stock deals at the time of transaction. Maréchal says that has often been difficult to do under French law, explaining why there have thus far only been two major insider trading convictions: cases involving canning group Pechiney, and bank Société Général in the late 1980s. Maréchal says sentencing in those cases suggests anyone eventually condemned...
...unfortunate for Hillary Clinton to be forever linked to Bill's distasteful legacy of immorality and scandal. The weight of that baggage might keep her from rising to the presidency. Joseph M. Kosanovic Camp Hill...
...Orleans . "The problem [in 2003] was, he never defended himself. Now, obviously, he's going to change that." Jindal has responded with ads of his own, attacking his opponents as part of the "corrupt crowd" - even though none of the other major candidates has been tainted by scandal - and touting his conservative bona fides. He's released a slew of position papers on topics ranging from health care to crime, and promised to reform Louisiana's ethically challenged political system - a perennial campaign theme that has had limited success among past reform candidates...