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Speaking as part of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center’s Theodore H. White Lecture, Branch used the media’s role in the scandals of the Clinton administration to demonstrate the need for journalistic reform. He said that he sees the Monica Lewinsky scandal as a symptom of the breakdown of the process...
...York Governor Eliot Spitzer criticized the federal response to the economic crisis in a lecture yesterday sponsored by Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, an appearance some media outlets called ironic due to Spitzer’s resignation in the midst of a prostitution scandal...
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...With demonstrators taking to the streets in several cities in support of the KPK and demanding transparent handling of the case, the government is facing mounting pressure to resolve a case that grows more complicated with each new revelation. The last major banking scandal, in 1999, dashed the political future of former President B.J. Habibie and culminated with protests in the streets. "By taking so long to get to expose the truth, SBY is putting stability of the country at risk," says Rizky. "Businesses need stability and without it they will rethink any plans they have to invest...
...time when SBY hopes to attract $200 billion in foreign capital each year to improve the country's crumbling infrastructure, any delays in resolving this latest scandal could prove a serious setback. Anger is mounting toward those believed to be above the law (a giant poster of businessman Anggodo in a police uniform carried at the rally summed feelings up nicely) and is motivating people to take to the streets. "In terms of numbers the protests won't be like 1998 against [former President] Suharto but in terms of pressure it could get just as big," says Eep Saefulloh Fatah...