Word: scandalizer
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...started out as such a faint hope for New York Senator Charles Schumer that he hardly dared voice it. But as more and more Republicans retire or become engulfed by scandal, it has become irresistibly imaginable: the idea that Democrats might gain a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate after the 2008 elections. "It's a very remote chance and every star would have to align correctly," Schumer, who heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told TIME. "But it's way too early to make predictions...
...Democrats have a good chance of picking up nine seats. The tail wind from the 2006 elections would have to gust into 2008. "For Democrats to get to 60 they'd have to go 8-0 in every plausible race and then find one more from one of the scandal-ridden states and defend Senator [Mary] Landrieu in Louisiana," said Charlie Cook, editor of the non-partisan Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races. "That's an incredibly tall order...
Recently, Uribe, one of the Bush Administration's closest allies in Latin America, has had to deal with scandal investigations surrounding his government and lingering questions about his political past. And he has been lashing back harshly and, some critics say, indiscriminately. Last week, he issued a dryly worded communique effectively accusing an investigating judge of the supreme court of plotting to implicate the President in a failed murder attempt. Uribe said he had received a letter from a mid-level paramilitary leader known as "Tasmania" saying magistrate Ivan Velazquez had offered legal benefits to the jailed militia leader...
Over the past several years Uribe and the Supreme Court have clashed repeatedly. The court, and in particular Velazquez, has spearheaded investigations into a widening scandal linking paramilitary leaders with dozens of politicians, most of whom are Uribe supporters. On Oct 4 the court announced it was investigating Uribe's cousin Sen. Mario Uribe in connection with the scandal. "Against all odds, Colombia's Supreme Court has been making unprecedented progress in investigating links between paramilitaries and politicians close to the President," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at the Washington-based Human Rights Watch. "President Uribe's phone calls...
...Holmes' debut went almost unnoticed, and the struggling doctor devoted nearly all of his spare time to writing long historical novels in the vein of Sir Walter Scott - novels that he was convinced would make his reputation. It wasn't to be. In 1888, Holmes reappeared in A Scandal in Bohemia, a short story in Strand Magazine. An immediate hit, its hero took the foggy, crime-ridden London of gas street lights and Jack the Ripper by storm - and Conan Doyle's life would never be the same...