Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every week now, it seems, we meet another businessman who wanted a favor from the White House and was willing to pay for it. And every week we learn more about a White House willing to place politics before policy. Just when it began to look as if the scandal was mainly about Chinese influence peddling, it turns out that all kinds of hustlers could descend on the White House like gamblers to Vegas, feeling lucky. It didn't matter if the player was a global wheeler-dealer like Tamraz, whom Interpol wanted to question in connection with $200 million...
...Tamraz scandal was only the last nail. Republicans on the Senate Intelligence committee, and especially chairman Richard Shelby, had been gunning for Lake ever since Clinton nominated him to take over the CIA in December. Early on, Shelby decided to hold Lake's nomination hostage to pry more documents out of the White House on everything from Haiti to Lake's stock holdings to the campaign-finance scandal. Administration officials tell TIME that a Shelby aide even drove the 35 miles to the supersecret National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, to ask if the NSA had any information...
...husband, father of two, and a professor of music at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. In the early 1970's, Applewhite was granted a leave of absence from the university to deal with emotional problems. According to The Washington Post, he left the university amid a scandal over an affair with a male student. Within a year he left his wife and children, and was later hospitalized for heart trouble. During this time he had a "near-death experience," according to family members, that would change his life. At the hospital, he was convinced by a registered nurse...
...husband, father of two, and a professor of music at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. In the early 1970's, Applewhite was granted a leave of absence from the university to deal with emotional problems. According to The Washington Post, he left the university amid a scandal over an affair with a male student. Within a year he left his wife and children, and was later hospitalized for heart trouble. During this time he had a "near-death experience," according to family members, that would change his life. At the hospital, he was convinced by a registered nurse...
When it comes to unraveling a Washington scandal, the best clues often come from the most clueless. They are the bit players so earnestly inept that it is hard to separate what was diabolical from what was merely dumb. So it was in the best Washington tradition that congressional investigators were focusing their attention last week on a former interior designer with a remarkable knack for placing herself near the hot spots of trouble for her old friend, Bill Clinton...