Word: scandalize
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...scandal threatening the reputation of a man once known as Teflon Tony involves alleged impropriety behind closed doors. But the police inquiry launched in March 2006 isn't concerned with besotted interns or sexually promiscuous leaders. Blair and the New Labour Party he created in his dapper, middle-class image are suspected of getting too close and personal with money...
...poll say "these kinds of things have always gone on." But after close to a decade in office--and with the horror of Iraq, for which Blair is personally blamed--many in London's always frenzied media-and-politics village have decided that enough is enough. "What [this scandal has] become is a symbol of disengagement," says Katwala. "There's a strong link being made in the media by people who feel Iraq is still unfinished business and that this might be the next big thing. Is this where Blair gets caught...
...Hell.” “[The film] pulls all findings of all investigations together with the best evidence to constitute a clarion call for a 9-11-style investigation,” Power said. “The fact that we are almost three years from the scandal and still don’t know where the buck stops,” she added, “is an abomination.” The film will be shown next in Washington, D.C., to lawmakers. It airs on HBO on Feb. 22. —Staff writer Erin...
...Fuller’s influence on Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” and on Alcott’s “Moods” seem to be spot-on. But Cheever only sprinkles in these academic observations and then ignores them to gush scandal, contrive imagined scenes, and give undue importance to an ever-shuffling deck of secondary characters. This ratio, if it were inverted, might have made for an entertaining, perceptive, and focused presentation of the facts. Sadly, “American Bloomsbury” centers so much on shock factor that...
Another revealing instance of Western apathy toward non-Western abuses is the ongoing U.S. military prison abuse scandal. If foreign prisoners are mistreated by Americans, activists immediately spark a worldwide, front-page furor—and rightfully so. But when it comes to the far more routine, and more sinister, abuse of prisoners’ rights in China, we are deaf and dumb. Since it is not the U.S. committing the acts, Americans feel no guilt, Europeans feel no vindictiveness, and therefore no one has any notable reason to object...