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...pledged to work hard at "reconciling" and regaining the trust of citizens and his staff. The briefing lasted just minutes. No questions were taken leaving pundits, politicos and regular San Franciscans shaking their heads wondering about what's next for Newsom. Will he resign? How will this homegrown scandal impact his upcoming re-election - or any future bid for higher office...
...Adultery isn't a political disqualifier for him," Republican consultant Dan Schnur tells TIME. It has been 20 years since Gary Hart came clean about his extramarital affair with Donna Rice, he recalls, which ruined the Democratic Senator's 1988 presidential bid. Many more political sex scandals have made headlines since. "Bill Clinton rode out the Lewinsky scandal, because it was such a small percentage of the overall amount of information that voters had about him," Schnur says. "Right now, most people outside of San Francisco only know two things about Gavin Newsom: he supports same-sex marriage...
Harvard announced the finalists for its annual Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting yesterday, honoring six teams of newspaper journalists who uncovered scandals in finance, medicine, and elsewhere. The winners of the award, given by the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, will be announced March 13. The winning team will walk away with $25,000. “The Goldsmith Prize is the Golden Globes to the Pulitzer’s Oscars,” said the center’s director, Alex S. Jones. Four of last year?...
...storyteller. Several of the films up for best screenplay at the Oscars were written by Brits, including The Queen (Peter Morgan) and Notes on a Scandal (Patrick Marber). "The quality of really good British writing has been a tradition for decades," says Vaines. "British screenwriters have a facility with words, a theatricality, but they also understand the way film works as a medium." In the Hollywood power scale, most screenwriters rank just below the guy who buys the bagels, and a finished script is never really finished until the director, the producers and, often, other writers have had their...
...scandal affected Tony Blair? Police interviewed Blair in December, but as a witness, not as a suspect. (More than 90 people have been questioned, including former Conservative leader Michael Howard.) But the allegations of Labour sleaze are damaging to a Prime Minister who came to power in 1997 promising that his government would be "whiter than white." If one of his close aides is charged with any crime, it could critically damage Blair and hasten his expected departure from office this year...