Word: scandalize
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Late last month, Goodling testified before the House Judiciary Committee that she requested the April meeting with Gonzales to ask for a transfer because of the unfolding scandal surrounding the firing of U.S. attorneys last year. Gonzales told her he'd think about the request, and then suddenly began unveiling his recollection of the firings. "He laid out a little bit of it, and then he asked me if I had any reaction to his iteration," Goodling testified. She told the members of the committee that the conversation had made her "uncomfortable" because she thought both of them might...
Venice afforded most allied leaders their first close-up look at Reagan since the Iran-contra scandal broke, and they were distressed by what they saw. The 76-year-old President appeared visibly older and slower, physically and mentally. He dismayed several heads of government by reading from index cards during informal gatherings, something he had not done at previous summits. Compared with his performance at the Tokyo summit last year, said a French diplomat, the President "seemed much less at ease, much more hesitant...
...drama, the speech received relatively little media coverage. Compared to the younger, more vigorous Gorbachev, Reagan seemed to be a diminished figure on the world stage, a lame-duck President hobbled by the Iran-Contra scandal at home. But in hindsight, the "Tear Down this Wall" speech helps explain how the Cold War ended. Unlike many conservatives, Reagan believed that the U.S.-Soviet arms race was not immutable, and that the rivalry between East and West that had defined the Cold War could be defused through diplomacy and persuasion. In Gorbachev, he found a partner with whom he could...
Despite high-profile scandal, economist’s courses...
...Shleifer did not emerge from the scandal unscathed. His case led to a federal lawsuit that cost the University $26 million and was one of the biggest single factors in University President Lawrence H. Summers’ downfall last year. In October, Shleifer lost his endowed chair, but not his tenure. A Faculty-led investigation apparently concluded that he violated University policies—Shleifer had been advising the government under the auspices of the Harvard Institute for International Development...