Word: scandalizer
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...served. The very fact that an author might ask such questions led many publishers to pass on the book. Levine says one publishing house called her manuscript "radioactive"; another told her it lacked the "comforting messages" of a parenting tome. The book's timing, coming as the sex-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church unfolds, has not helped its cause. Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute, calls it an "academic cover for child molesters." Though the University of Minnesota said in a statement that it stands by the book as an "honest...
Accused of receiving nearly $40,000 from Taiwan to fund his Harvard studies in exchange for negotiating Taiwanese interests into a U.S.-Japan defense agreement, a former Harvard fellow yesterday denied knowing the ultimate source of the money that is at the heart of a growing scandal...
According to recent press reports, Masahiro Akiyama, who had been affiliated with Harvard’s Asia Center as a distinguished fellow, is allegedly part of an expanding international scandal involving diplomats from the U.S., Japan, South Africa, Nicaragua and Panama paid to advance the interests of Taiwan...
...mail to The Crimson yesterday, Akiyama said he did not know the source of some of the money that funded his stay at Harvard—specifically, the nearly $40,000 that came through CSIS and is at the heart of the scandal...
...Enron scandal has plenty of dirt to go around, as the Harvard Corporation has already discovered. But what will always remain most shocking to me is that in four of the last five years, Enron paid no income taxes. What’s more, it was entirely legal. Through a variety of loopholes, including 800 subsidiaries in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Enron managed to earn $1.8 billion without owing the government a cent. In fact, the company got a net rebate of $381 million, your tax dollars and mine...