Word: scandalizer
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...over to FBI Director Robert Mueller. It can't be any clearer that renditions, harsh interrogations (if not torture) and secret prisons have been a catastrophe for the CIA, promising to tie it up legally for years to come, not to mention completely overshadow its successes. With the torture scandal sucking up all the oxygen, who today remembers that it was the CIA in the months before 9/11 that was jumping up and down on the table warning that bin Laden was about to attack us? (Read "The CIA's Silent War in Pakistan...
...These groups could make a strong impact in the elections. UKIP won just 2% of the vote and no seats in the 2005 British general election, but some opinion polls currently put the party ahead of the ruling Labour Party, owing largely to voter disgust over the parliamentary-expenses scandal in London. In the Netherlands, the anti-Islamic Geert Wilders could see his Freedom Party overtake the Christian Democrats of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. (Read "Dutch Shrug for Anti-Muslim Film...
...what constituted, according to Government Professor Robert D. Putnam, “a crime.”A DEMAND FOR DISSOCIATIONSeniors in the class of 1984 returned to Harvard in the fall to another shock. Popular Government Professor Jorge I. Dominguez had been implicated in the second sexual harassment scandal in two years—this time, the case involved a junior faculty member and a female graduate student.Unlike the two incidents that came before it, students and Dominguez’ colleagues remember this case presenting a unique challenge to University officials desperately trying to assuage a hemorrhaging wound that...
...coming years, it serves no one to have this cost-cutting come at the expense of the country’s future labor force. Obama’s budget also proposes to make student loans available directly from the government, providing a much-needed alternative to the scandal-plagued student loan industry. It makes sense for a disinterested lender like the federal government to help out college students who might otherwise fall victim to predatory loan agencies...
...tawdry behavior of modern MPs - expensing everything from improvements to second homes to their spouse's porn - have led to popular outrage in Britain and claimed the scalp of the Speaker of the House of Commons, a supposedly above-the-fray symbol of Parliament's reputation. The scandal has exposed what anyone who has spent time in the House of Commons knows well; that many of its members are has-beens and never-will-bes, self-important rhetoricians inebriated (as one truly great parliamentarian said of another) with the exuberance of their own verbosity...