Word: scandalizer
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...Japanese investment" in its auto sector, "it would be in keeping to get the first major Chinese offshore investment," he reasons. Could the good times catch on over at Volkswagen? Peter Hartz, head of personnel at the German carmaker, quit last week in connection with a bribery and sex scandal. Separately, the firm unveiled a cost-cutting plan aimed at restarting the firm. Said Wolfgang Bernhard, chairman of the Volkswagen Brand Group: "If we cannot survive here at Volkswagen, then industrial Europe is going to die." Hey, let's not be premature...
...three-step rumba allows a person to assert his victimhood and exceptionalism simultaneously, eliciting sympathy from the faithful and grudging admiration--for hanging in there, for sticking to his guns--from the skeptical. If you think it doesn't work, ask Tom DeLay (still in Congress amid an ethics scandal), Bill O'Reilly (still on the air after a scandal involving phone sex and a loofah) or Barry Bonds (who will be welcomed back by the San Francisco Giants as soon as his knee is better, despite the steroid scandal...
...October: As the scandal spreads, White House spokesman Scott McClellan is asked, Did Rove and other White House sources ever discuss Plame with reporters? McClellan: "Those individuals assured me they were not involved in this." Leaking With A Vengeance (10/13/2003...
...mausoleum's current function: it has become a toilet. "Heritage in India is endless," says Thakur, head of New Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture and widely regarded as India's leading conservationist. "But year by year, even the best is disappearing. It's a crisis, a scandal. If we don't act, we're going to lose it completely...
...Deep in our guts, we know that a President phoning an election official when votes are being counted?as Arroyo has admitted doing?is most likely not unusual. The scandal generated over Arroyo's calls is both contrived and hypocritical: we are not supposed to know this happens, but because the conversations appear to have been caught on tape, our explicit code of proper civic behavior compels us to feign disgust. We have to go through the motions of being scandalized. One side of our schizophrenic political culture must be appeased. After we are done with the ceremonial self-flagellation...