Word: scandalize
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Polls show that if Olmert, tarred by scandal, were to keep clinging to the leadership of Kadima, the party would collapse - and it would drag the coalition government along with it. Zevulon Orlev, chairman of the National Religious party, called for Olmert to quit after police interrogated him on Friday, saying: "In an enlightened country, he would have resigned a long time...
...dollars in envelopes stuffed with cash for campaign funds which were used for expensive items and vacations. Talansky also claims he gave Olmert loans which were never re-paid. Olmert denies the allegations but says that if he is indicted, he will resign. For many Israelis, sick of the scandal that has engulfed the prime minister for many months, that can't happen soon enough. Olmert, they say, has been too wrapped up in his own defense that he cannot run the country, or make peace with the Palestinians...
...United States was dominated by his unprecedented attempts to heal the wounds from the clergy sex abuse crisis, including a series of heartfelt remarks and a private meeting in Washington with five victims from the Boston Archdiocese, which was hardest hit by pedophile priests. But though the scandal in the U.S. may have been the most widespread, and certainly most public, there are, in fact, cases of sex abuse all around the Catholic world - as there are, as the Vatican always points out, in all walks of life. In Australia, victims' rights groups are calling on the Pope to respond...
...Malaysia A Scandal Revived Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim emerged from the Turkish ambassador's residence in Kuala Lumpur on June 30, a day after he sought sanctuary there following accusations that he sodomized a 23-year-old male aide. Anwar vehemently denied the allegations, which he denounced as political smear tactics fabricated by a coalition government in danger of losing power for the first time since Malaysia gained independence, in 1957. The charges, which have sidetracked Anwar's plans to re-enter Parliament, echo those preceding his 1998 imprisonment for sodomy. That conviction--overturned in 2004--came after...
...Anwar scandal could divert attention from the trial of Najib's ex-aide, at the same time weakening the campaign against Abdullah. Anwar recently said the opposition needs only 28 members of parliament to defect from the ruling coalition in order for the opposition to take power. He has been aggressively courting crossovers among political representatives from the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak, which are among Malaysia's poorest despite plentiful natural resources...