Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff as a correspondent only four weeks ago, but he's already reported two exclusive stories for TIME: a profile of chief Democratic fund raiser Alan Solomont; a report on the secret White House database used to track potential donors; and this week's lead story about the growing scandal over foreign donations to the Democratic Party. It's all in a month's work for Weisskopf, who in 19 years at the Washington Post garnered a fistful of journalism honors, including Pulitzer nominations and a George Polk Award. He was well prepared to follow the Asian money trail with...
...joined the force as part of a 1963 city initiative to recruit and train young officers in the wake of a scandal that exposed corruption in Chicago's police force...
...President's complaint last week is how unremarkable it is. It fits a pattern established early on in his presidency that continues even now, at the highest point of his political popularity and power. Two weeks after his re-election, when reporters pressed him on the foreign-contribution scandal, he compared his treatment by the media to that of Richard Jewell, of Olympic-bombing fame. Two months later, in a speech to the Democratic National Committee, after his Inauguration, he showed the same chutzpah (as Isaiah might have...
...running the country through him. While Korzhakov says he feels sorry for Yeltsin, don't look for the granite-faced former KGB employee to go easy on the President who is now a bitter enemy. Yeltsin, in any case, is ill equipped to stand up to public scandal. For the first time since the President's disappearance from public view, a Kremlin official conceded Tuesday that Yeltsin's recovery is going slower than expected...
...downplay the most recent victory of Jean-Marie Le Pen as an aberration, TIME's Bruce Crumley calls the development worrying: "This concentration of power in the south provides the party with the base to launch a major offensive in the run up to next year's national elections." Scandal-ridden Socialists and conservatives risk being railroaded by the extremists, says Crumley: "NF candidates may be regarded by disgruntled voters as the only alternative to tainted mainstream politicians...