Word: scandalizes
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...Harrods scandal has caused this week's second resignation by a British official amid allegations that he accepted favors from the department store. This time it's Neil Hamilton, the government's Corporate Affairs Minister who oversees business ethics. Last Thursday, Northern Ireland Minister Tim Smith quit after he admitted taking a payoff from Harrods before carrying water for the department store in Parliament. Hamilton, however, is going out swinging, insisting he did nothing wrong and threatening to sue The Guardian -- the paper that broke the scandal. His resignation may be good news for scandal-plagued Prime Minister John Major...
...with federal charges stemming from the biggest bank fraud ever. Naqvi now faces trial in New York Friday on state charges. But Naqvi's boss, B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, is currently in Pakistan and unlikely to be brought to justice, says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne, who covered the scandal. Naqvi has pleaded indigence and probably won't pay the fines levied against him. Still, today's development is a significant victory for the feds. "Naqvi was the main record keeper . . . he really knew what was going on," says Gwynne. "In terms of the West, this is the only major...
Virginia needs to rebuff North's attempt to reenter the circles of government. He was fortunate enough to avoid prison time for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal; his reputation outside of his media-saturated state still reeks of duplicity. Certainly Virginia has nothing to gain on a national level by electing North. The state would go from "Home of Presidents" to "Home of Guns-for-Hostages...
...polls that have Americans mating energetically two or three times a week. Those surveys are inflated from the start by the people who fill them out: Playboy subscribers, for example, who brag about their sex lives in reader-survey cards. Even the famous Kinsey studies - which caused such a scandal in the late 1940s and early '50s by reporting that half of American men had extramarital affairs - were deeply flawed. Although Alfred Kinsey was a biologist by training (his expertise was the gall wasp), he compromised science and took his human subjects where he could find them: in boardinghouses, college...
...loose in England, where heir-to-the-throne Charles revealed yesterday in an authorized biography that he was prodded into a loveless marriage by his emotionally distant dad, Prince Philip. The Queen's hubby -- also in Russia -- reportedly castigated Charles today for going public. The skinny on the newest scandal: this may be the final sign that Bonnie Prince Charlie carries too much baggage to be King...