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...scandal threatening the reputation of a man once known as Teflon Tony involves alleged impropriety behind closed doors. But the police inquiry launched in March 2006 isn't concerned with besotted interns or sexually promiscuous leaders. Blair and the New Labour Party he created in his dapper, middle-class image are suspected of getting too close and personal with money...
...poll say "these kinds of things have always gone on." But after close to a decade in office--and with the horror of Iraq, for which Blair is personally blamed--many in London's always frenzied media-and-politics village have decided that enough is enough. "What [this scandal has] become is a symbol of disengagement," says Katwala. "There's a strong link being made in the media by people who feel Iraq is still unfinished business and that this might be the next big thing. Is this where Blair gets caught...
Another revealing instance of Western apathy toward non-Western abuses is the ongoing U.S. military prison abuse scandal. If foreign prisoners are mistreated by Americans, activists immediately spark a worldwide, front-page furor—and rightfully so. But when it comes to the far more routine, and more sinister, abuse of prisoners’ rights in China, we are deaf and dumb. Since it is not the U.S. committing the acts, Americans feel no guilt, Europeans feel no vindictiveness, and therefore no one has any notable reason to object...
...minister apologized repeatedly but has refused to resign, and so far Abe has stood behind him - calculating that he can't afford to lose a second cabinet minister just four months into his first term. (Genichiro Sata, minister of administrative reforms, resigned in December over a political funding scandal...
...Blair is adamant that he won't be pushed out of office early. In a defiant interview with BBC radio on Friday, the Prime Minister stated that he would not quit over the cash for honors scandal. The British public, he said, "will have to put up with me for a bit longer...