Word: scandalized
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Perhaps even more audacious, for a country still rebounding from a colossal banking scandal, the D.R. is trying to germinate a new $800 million regional financial center. "Leonel Fernández is very much a vision man ... This is exactly the sort of visionary project he absolutely loves," says Gaetan Bucher, a Swiss-Dominican banker and the lead investor in what will essentially be an offshore entity, first trading Latin American debt and later offering a safe haven for private wealth and corporate banking...
...accused of breaking banking secrecy laws in an attempt to discredit a witness who testified before a Congressional committee to seeing him at a villa used by his aides to distribute bribes and sleep with prostitutes. And on Wednesday, a federal prosecutor charged 40 people in connection with the scandal, including Jose Dirceu, the man who was Lula's closest advisor for years. Says opposition Senator Arthur Virgilio: "Lula has run a corrupt government, one that is completely unstable from an ethical standpoint and incompetent from an administrative standpoint...
...Especially in an election year, the continuing corruption scandal is a big embarassment to Lula, a man whose measured discourse and conservative fiscal policies marked him as Latin America's moderate alternative to radical, anti-U.S. leftists like Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. But amazingly, it has done little to affect his popularity with the general public, which has shown a steadfast refusal to believe Lula knew what was going on, accepting his claim that "no one in this country can lecture me on ethics...
With all of the controversy surrounding the current rape scandal involving the lacrosse team at Duke University, one detail continually makes its way to the forefront of the media storm: The alleged victim is an exotic dancer. Of course, it’s to be expected that people would take at least some notice of this fact, given that it is a crucial part of the sequence of events that explains why she was at the team party in the first place. However, in a troubling number of newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, television discussions, and my own daily conversations...
...against a WMD threat, it was in the form of a four-day bombing campaign against Iraq in December 1998. Dubbed "Desert Fox" by the Pentagon, it got relatively little press because President Clinton?s impeachment and doomed House Speaker-to-be Bob Livingston?s extramarital-affair scandal were exploding at the same time. As the attack unfurled, Pentagon officials privately conceded their barrage was based on crude estimates of where Saddam Hussein might be hiding elements of his banned WMD programs...