Word: scandalizer
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...repeat itself, Mark Twain said, but it often rhymes. As the markets growled, historians recalled the grisly years of 1973-74, a downturn driven not just by a sick economy but by disillusion over everything from Vietnam to Watergate. This too is a summer not of one scandal but of many--the Roman Catholic Church, and the FBI, and Major League ballplayers on steroids. Comedians joke that Arthur Andersen tries to cover up corruption by rotating accountants from diocese to diocese, that Enron and K Mart will merge so Martha Stewart can design the prison uniforms. In each case...
America's gilded ages have reliably ended in scandal, followed by soul-searching and reform. But investors are divided over what needs to be done. The gentle, self-policing era that SEC chairman Harvey Pitt proclaimed last October is dead and gone, but even some battered investors don't trust grandstanding lawmakers to distinguish between reforms that are needed and those that will cramp the recovery even more. That was the argument Dick Cheney and others made to the President--that in the long run, Bush will suffer more if he gets a quick political boost from reforms that strangle...
...scandal that inspired it still so fresh in the public's memory--that its violation has put the Governor on the defensive, even though it was Bush who pushed the measure through the legislature last spring. He had acted to defuse criticism arising from the DCF's last debacle: the case of the still vanished 5-year-old Rilya Wilson, who was missing for 15 months before her caseworkers realized it in April. Rilya's caseworkers also fudged reports and lied about visits that never took place...
...LATEST COVER STORY Korea's Pop Scandal July 29, 2002 Past Issues Pakistan's President Jul. 22, 2002 ----------------- Vegetarianism Jul. 15, 2002 ----------------- Understanding Anxiety Jul. 8, 2002 ----------------- Being Tom Cruise Jul. 1, 2002 ----------------- Asia's World Cup Jun. 24, 2002 ----------------- China's Labor Problems...
...they are increasingly committing what is known in Japan as naibu kokuhatsu (exposure from within). This year, an employee of Snow Brand Foods alerted authorities to the company's deliberate mislabeling of foreign beef as a domestic product, a scandal that put the corporation out of business. Last month, an anonymous letter, apparently from an insider at Tokyo Women's Medical College to the parents of a 12-year-old girl who died during heart surgery, alleged that fatal errors were made during the operation. Two doctors were subsequently arrested for trying to cover up their mistakes by altering medical...