Word: scandalizer
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...white enclave far removed from the city’s majority black population.Yes, I slowly learned, Washington was not always the inspiring metropolis that guidebooks and movies had promised me. And if Barry’s escapades hadn’t taught me such sad truths, surely some other scandal would have.And yet we often see that people much prefer to laugh at misfortune or embarrassment than to cry over it. The talk shows went crazy for Barry. I remember that the 1996 comedy “High School High” was set in inner-city Marion Barry High...
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe headed to Washington this week, hoping to contain the fallout from an ever-widening scandal linking some of his closest allies to right-wing paramilitaries - a scandal that is threatening a key free-trade agreeement and future military aid from...
...written. If the first part of the book was simply a detailed treatment of one of the most important studies of human nature, then the second half is the crucial dissection and evaluation.Unsurprisingly, Zimbardo draws parallels between the SPE and the recent Abu Ghraib torture and abuse scandal. His interpretations of the actions of the soldiers through the lens of his experience are enlightening: Though initially disgusted by the soldiers’ actions, Zimbardo eventually testified on their behalf in military court martial proceedings, arguing that any person, if pressured under a certain set of conditions and circumstances, could easily...
Kevin, who had served in the same platoon, recoiled at the "calculated lies," including a Silver Star awarded his brother because the Army needed a hero as much as it feared a scandal. It was weeks before the Tillmans learned the truth. "We've all been betrayed," Pat's mother Mary Tillman said. "We never thought they would use him the way they...
...says one senior Justice official. Privately, even top Gonzales aides admit that the impression in the department is that the Attorney General was, at best, out to lunch during the U.S. Attorney firings - his lack of recall during hearings only further underscored that impression. And the subject of the scandal has the ability to undermine morale there as well: nothing saps enthusiasm among prosecutors like the politicization of their work...