Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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, Pennsylvania...
...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...
...church's sexual-abuse scandal has also taken its toll. Catholics felt that the bishops--many of them accused of enabling pedophile priests--were arrogantly evading the same kind of penance they demand from their flocks. "The very teachers of the sacrament of confession seemed to be ignoring a constitutive part of that sacrament," says the Rev. James Martin, associate editor of the Jesuit-run magazine America. "It made the confession crisis worse." Wuerl, who in fact was praised for taking a hard line on abusive priests, concedes that those are "significant issues." But he also believes that Catholics...
...that race plays a very prevalent role in our society. Nevertheless, they never seem to acknowledge it in any particular instance, including within sports, where a predominantly white, middle aged media talk about young, black men with frequency. At any rate, to say race is irrelevant to the Vick scandal is silly—the fact of the matter is that black people and white people saw it differently, and that means something. A Pew Research Center poll had 51 percent of African Americans saying the coverage of Vick was unfair in contrast to only 12 percent of whites...
...best places in Boston to browse for books. Until last week, that is. Recent developments at one of the Square’s largest booksellers have pitted bibliophiles against Coop officials. For anyone who has enough of a life to have not followed the scandal, here’s a quick recap: enterprising Harvard students attempt to copy ISBN numbers of course books in order to purchase them more cheaply elsewhere. The Coop calls in the Cambridge Police, who recognize the situation is ridiculous and refuse to boot the students. Frenzied debate ensues over the Coop’s role...