Word: scandalizer
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...that former referee Tim Donaghy bet on games over which he officiated during the last two seasons. For years, Stern has been proud of the reputation of the NBA as the No Betting Allowed league and has been almost arrogantly defensive of the league's referees. So, when this scandal broke, some sports writers were ready to talk of comeuppance. But Stern has adopted the strategy that any smart figure in the sports world takes when wrongdoing is revealed: show contrition...
...hour-long press conference was an act. Stern has a reputation for sincerity. But in running the league for the last 23 years, Stern has learned how to survive the adversity of the business, and he does not believe the NBA will be irreparably harmed by this off-season scandal. "I think that our public, learning what we have done and what we are determined to do, is going to be by and large with us," he said...
...Japan, he met a lovely young Buddhist whom he successfully converted. After he wrote to the Vatican and renounced his priesthood, she in turn successfully converted him into a husband. I am one of four offspring of a former priest and a convert who overcame great odds--even scandal--to marry in the faith. Mass for us was not a scheduling option...
...some way, the failings of Rome on this front continue to be personified by former Boston Archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law, 75, who was largely seen as the symbol of the entire American scandal. After repeated calls to Rome to remove him were ignored, Law was finally eased out of the Boston job in December 2002, only to resurface the following year with a prestigious posting in Rome as the archpriest of the historic church of Santa Maria Maggiore. He was last spotted this month at the Fourth of July reception at the palatial Rome residence of Francis Rooney, the American...
...more recent times, Rome has had a mixed record in responding to the crisis. Pope John Paul II called an unprecedented meeting in Rome of all the American Cardinals in April 2002 to address the abuse scandal, but was believed to have been largely shielded in his later years from the worst details. His successor has taken a tougher line, and indeed just months before he was elected to be Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote of the "filth" of the Church in apparent reference to the sex scandals. Among the boldest administrative moves of Benedict since...