Word: scandalizer
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When this slim volume made its first appearance 10 years ago, it was vying for attention with Monica Lewinsky and the Clinton scandal. Monica won. But Cheese slowly began to gain traction in corporate circles, even though critics dissed it as an overly broad parable that could be understood by a bright sixth-grader. A year later, it was No. 1 on the New York Times business best-seller list...
...long-entrenched techniques his group tries to change: "After 9/11, military interrogators focused on two techniques: fear and control. The Army trained their 'gators to confront and dominate prisoners. This led down the disastrous path to the Abu Ghraib scandal. At Guantánamo Bay, the early interrogators not only abused the detainees, they tried to belittle their religious beliefs. I'd heard stories from a friend who had been there that some of the 'gators even tried to convert prisoners to Christianity. These approaches rarely yielded results ... My group is among the first to bring a new approach...
Chambliss, Saxby •unwanted questions to about ties to scandal-plagued sugar company lead to placement of hand over camera lens...
...Corp. executive Wendi Deng--nonetheless opened themselves up to biographer Wolff's relentless questioning. The result is an inside account of the billionaire newsman's hard-fought, obsessive battle to acquire the Wall Street Journal. But as in Murdoch's more lowbrow publications, the real attraction here is the scandal: Wolff delves into the family's succession melodrama ("a bloody mess," says Wolff) and calls Murdoch's decision to leave his wife for Deng "perhaps the most confounding and dramatic moment in the history of News Corp...
...controversial last-minute pardon of fugitive tycoon Marc Rich as a potential snare in confirmation hearings. But the behind-the-scenes role Holder played in the Monica Lewinsky probe - a 10-month Justice Department ordeal - offers a much fuller record to scrutinize. And like everything else with that polarizing scandal, Holder's shifting positions at the time are likely to be judged differently depending on one's view of Clinton and Starr...