Word: scandalize
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...resounding reelection of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson this weekend has left many in New Orleans scratching their heads, wondering how the scandal-plagued Congressman could have coasted into a ninth term even as a federal bribery investigation swirled around him. And more to the point, how effective can Jefferson be with a majority that ran on an anti-corruption campaign - particularly at a time when the city and Louisiana are in desperate need of federal help in the region's Hurricane Katrina recovery effort...
...modern world could use, says Johnson, noting that some 2 billion people are still at risk because they do not have access to clean water. "Unlike hiv or global warming, this is a problem we fundamentally know how to solve," he says. Failure to do so is a scandal worth kicking up a stink about...
NOTES ON A SCANDAL Smirk, smirk. Pretty, slightly ditzy schoolteacher (Cate Blanchett) gets it on with one of her teenage students, and predictable consequences follow. But Notes is not really about age-inappropriate sex or child victimization. The boy involved is always the rather ugly aggressor in this relationship. If there is a victim, it is Blanchett's Sheba, addled by an unhappy marriage, failed artistic ambitions and, soon enough, by another relationship--this one from hell. It is with another teacher, Barbara (Judi Dench), who is their school's battle-ax--cruel disciplinarian, cynical commentator on the hopelessness...
Notes on a Scandal is melodrama trying to pass itself off as a slice of realistic life. But director Richard Eyre and screenwriter Patrick Marber keep forcing us past disbelief and into the perverse pleasures of nastiness. If nothing else, their film is the perfect antidote to all those warm, forgiving schoolboy dramas we've endured through the years. This corn is not green; it is rotten down to the last kernel...
...handing out their own version of a Montreal guide to prominent tourist sites in the historic city. The NDP "Map to the Scars" showed key locations - offices, advertising firms, even a restaurant where money was allegedly handed over to party bosses in paper bags - at the center of the scandal that forced the Liberals from office. It was a reminder that it may take more than one leadership convention for the party to shed entirely the stain of scandal and corruption...