Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With Washington reeling from the Abramoff lobbying scandal and Republicans and Democrats alike pledging to crack down on influence peddling, with one lawmaker already gone from Capitol Hill because he traded favors for cash, you're probably guessing this isn't the best time for members of Congress to dispense a fortune in favors to their friends...
...along with 13 other prelates from around the world; by Pope Benedict XVI, who said he wanted to "reflect the universality of the church"; in Vatican City. O'Malley and Levada, the former bishops of Boston and San Francisco, respectively, played key roles in responding to the clergy abuse scandal...
...THEODORE DRAPER, 93, irascible historian known for his masterly plumbing of official documents and talent at translating them into lively works that explored the abuse of power in U.S. politics; in Princeton, N.J. Among his best-known books: A Very Thin Line, a definitive study of the Iran-contra scandal...
...There was the big scandal at the Olympics. Authorities raided the Austrian team headquarters, found hundreds of syringes and drugs. They said there's enough stuff there to support a major league baseball team." --JAY LENO...
...also happens to be home to Raffaele Guariniello, Italy's most expert and aggressive prosecutor of alleged doping scofflaws, who was bound to pounce on any hint of an infraction. "You need criminal justice. It gives you investigative means," Guariniello told Time, in his first public comments since the scandal broke. "Sports officials can't do searches, tap phones, sequester material." And thus the suspicion of athletes altering their body chemistry became something like an antiterrorist campaign. For two more days, plainclothes Caribinieri agents went up in the Alps, hunting for any signs of Mayer. "We never saw him with...