Word: scandalized
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...recommended the West got ready for a new Cold War. The Financial Times’ John Thornhill nostalgically remembered Churchill calling for Europe’s union against Russia, while The Daily Telegraph opined the West was losing patience with Putin. And of course, The Sun—a scandal-mongering tabloid—titled Litvinenko’s poisoning: “From Russia, with Lunch...
There's one hitch. It's not supposed to be like old times. In an election in which exit polls identified corruption as the No. 1 voting issue and Washington's biggest corruption scandal involved lobbying, Democrats won in part by promising to curtail K Street's excesses. Pelosi has said her first act as Speaker of the House in January will be to pass new rules limiting contact between lobbyists and lawmakers. Later in 2007, Pelosi plans to rewrite the laws on pork-barrel spending. She promises that the overall effect of her reforms will be "to break...
...church used a similar strategy successfully when Romney, who became wealthy building a venture-capital firm in Boston, was brought in as president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee when it needed to rescue the 2002 Winter Olympics from a bribery scandal. Some critics wondered if the games would become the "Molympics," and Otterson says he met with a stream of sports reporters to try to "put some of the myths to rest--polygamy being the most enduring...
...friend Ron Goldman. Murdoch also canceled Simpson's book, If I Did It "It is possible to use studio makeup to have a person look like me." ZAHRA AMIR EBRAHIMI, Iranian soap-opera star, denying that she was the woman in a sex tape that has caused a scandal in conservative Tehran. Ebrahimi claims the tape was fabricated by her ex-fiancé, who faces up to three years in jail if convicted of making and distributing it "Very low food security" U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ANNUAL REPORT, replacing hunger with this phrase to describe the experience of 4.4 million...
...Boyd, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1980-1981, was the youngest journalist to receive the fellowship at the time. Boyd, who led Pulitzer prize winning coverage at The Times, resigned from his post as managing editor in 2003 in the wake of a plagiarism scandal surrounding Times reporter Jayson Blair. Boyd was well-equipped to handle the pressures of being black in a largely white profession, said David Lamb, one of Boyd’s Nieman classmates who is now at the Los Angeles Times. Boyd founded a newspaper for black students during his years at the University...