Word: scandalized
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...upper hand. For the past two years, they have been dogged by revelations that a federal program was manipulated to create a Liberal-friendly slush fund and kickback scheme in the province of Quebec. A Nov. 1 report by a national commission exonerated Prime Minister Martin, but the scandal has left a lingering stench. "I'm tired of being screwed by the Liberals," says Gerry Gagné, 47, a lifelong Liberal supporter from Low, Que., in a now common refrain...
...many voters in the heartland, the Jack Abramoff congressional lobbying scandal has simply confirmed their suspicion that all the bums inside the nation's capital are on the take. But Washington's scandal du jour is just one example of the political corruption that the FBI is increasingly uncovering at all levels of government across the country. Under code names such as Tennessee Waltz, Plunder Dome, Safe Road and Lively Green, the FBI has mounted a growing number of investigations and undercover operations that have busted cops, mayors, judges, Governors--and everyone in between. Since 2002, the FBI has engineered...
...special counsel in the CIA-leak investigation, is presiding over an ongoing contracting and patronage probe that has already led to 30 indictments, including those of two lieutenants of Mayor Richard Daley. A federal official tells TIME that the bureau is looking closely at possible Daley links to the scandal, although an FBI spokesman stresses that Daley himself is not implicated to date. At the same time, former Illinois Governor George Ryan stands trial on various corruption charges (which he denies) that arose initially out of a probe into whether low-number license plates were being doled out to political...
...Parish sheriff's office, two state judges were convicted for their roles in helping steer business (i.e., prisoners) to the firm. In San Diego local government has been effectively frozen--and a city-council member has been convicted (although he remains free on appeal)--as a result of a scandal in which local officials accepted cash bribes from a strip-club owner in exchange for promises to try to change a city law to allow hands-on lap dances...
...badly hurt as it may seem. "There are 20 years of research, and one set of lies won't trash the whole field," says Christopher Thomas Scott, Stanford University bioethicist and author of the book Stem Cell Now. The bigger backlash is likely to be political, as the scandal gives further ammunition to those who view ESC research as inherently unethical. Still, other methods of ESC research will continue to develop across the world...