Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...champion Knicks. They married, had four children and followed the bouncing ball from city to city before settling in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1980, when Mike was two. After coaching in the minor pro leagues, Henry landed a job as an assistant coach at Arizona State. But after a recruiting scandal there in 1985, he went back to being a coaching gypsy: Baltimore, Maryland; Savannah, Georgia; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Venezuela. His trips home to Phoenix lost all frequency, and Henry's presence was reduced to an electronic pager he left with the kids...
...mere coincidence or a grave mistake for which no one but the three boys who beat him are guilty. The disease of racism is growing and if left untreated, it will kill us all. Racism is not an amorphous idea to be decried in whispers like the latest scandal. It is not the product of a fearful child's imagination. It is real. It is here. It is now. And it must be cured...
While some Democrats that I spoke with did express such opinions, many more expressed less concern over the issue than I had expected. And while I, too, feel both defensive and ashamed of the President, ultimately the scandal does not affect me very much. Of course, with Clinton's favorability ratings still above fifty percent, the fundraising debacle does not seem to have affected the public's view of the President very much, either...
...American people care? To start with, they have long since become accustomed to this President's scandals. The public has been presented by the media with a heavy rotation of Bill Clinton scandals since the New Hampshire primary of 1992. That amounts to over five years of non-stop scandal. Since scandals have become a norm, rather than a deviation, I would venture to say that the only thing that would worry the public would be the sudden disappearance of scandals. The average Joe figures that "those bastards in Washington are gonna be up to something rotten...
...course, it bothers us. We donated a considerable amount of time to the campaign, and it is disheartening to know that it was not conducted as ethically at the top levels as it was at the grass-roots level. But at the same time, we also know that scandals can happen to anyone, Democrat or Republican. We also know that scandals can happen to anyone, Democrat or Republican. We knew this before we became active in the party. We believed then and continue to belive that politics, despite its shortcomings, was the best way for us to channel our progressive...