Word: scandalizer
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...understand it was no leak but hacking. I feel deceived." The revelations came towards the end of what had been an uneventful election campaign, centering on unemployment and welfare. Polls had consistently shown a slight lead to the opposition alliance, but a survey taken partly after the scandal broke indicated that the SDP may now have a small lead. But the scandal may not be the boon to Persson it appears if it turns voters off. "Some people might think the whole election is nonsense and abstain from voting," says Professor Henrik Oscarsson, a political scientist from the University...
...drive, the houses they lived in, the flaky ambitions they harbor are realized with a nice, casual authenticity. (Brody's private eye is a good example; he thinks if he can sensationally crack this case he could become the town's go-to gumshoe, the first guy called when scandal threatens a star.) We're not really in the land of noir here; we're in a much sadder, more ordinary place, a place where desperation does not lead to murder, but to more pathetic (but in a way more believable) ends and ironies...
...Leveraging the Lobbyist Scandal For a congressional candidate, a presidential visit during campaign season is a sought-after opportunity...
...official spouses is what makes it so thrilling when one finally makes an appearance. On Tuesday, when I found the government speaker's wife splashed across the morning newspaper, I called everyone I knew. We may never meet Mrs. Ahmadinejad, but for now we are consoled by the political scandal caused by Fatemeh Rajabi, the wife of Ahmadinejad's spokesman and chief of staff. Mrs. Rajabi, it turns out, is a regular contributor to the most extremist publications in the country, a hardline pundit who argues that Islam and democracy are incompatible...
...especially another spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham, who had proposed before the furor that those who insult the government be "dealt with" legally. At his last press conference, reporters grilled Elham on the freedom of speech, and whether the government only reserved the right for its supporters. But the scandal has been titillating for thousands of Iranian women, myself included, who want to know more about the women behind the men running the country. Politicians shouldn't be judged by their personal lives, but if the president or his closest advisors were married to religious zealots who believed in political violence...