Word: scandalizer
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...city has not made it easy. Soma, 24, hasn't been able to find work - in a recession, no one's interested in her master's degree in psychology without experience - and Avishek's once coveted job at the outsourcing firm Satyam now depends on the whims of the scandal-tainted company's new owners. (Read "In India, a Dynastic Heir Strategizes the Election...
...Bush fundraising effort, compared with that of his predecessor, is off to a brisk start. Bill Clinton's library planners had hoped to receive pledges of $100 million within a year of the end of his presidency, but a pardons scandal delayed that achievement for another year, said Skip Rutherford, who chaired the Clinton library committee...
...hundred days is a long time, and although the presidential progress report serves as a general gauge for the direction of the country, most administrations don't achieve (or suffer) their greatest milestones until later. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Lewinsky scandal, Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb - they all fell outside the 100-day mark. Kennedy's deft handling of the Cuban missile crisis outweighed a number of disasters (Bay of Pigs) and minor setbacks (Russia's first-man-in-space triumph) that marked his first 100 days. And while Nixon's presidency started off smoothly...
...Appointed deputy president in 1999 by Thabo Mbeki, who became South Africa's president after Nelson Mandela retired in 1998. Their relationship soured in 2005, when Mbeki sacked Zuma following a corruption scandal in which Schabir Shaik, a close Zuma associate, was found guilty of corruption and fraud for paying him some $180,000 in bribes...
...Washington New Wiretap Scandal California Representative Jane Harman is disputing media reports that a 2005 National Security Agency wiretap recorded her agreeing to press for lenient treatment for two pro-Israel lobbyists accused of espionage in exchange for help securing a coveted committee post. Harman has denied the allegations--which TIME first reported in 2006--and urged the Obama Administration to release any relevant documents...