Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take yes for an answer." Common Cause president Ann McBride doesn't share Dole's sense of humor on the subject. "When the Banking chairman comes calling as the party's chief fund raiser," she says, "and comes on in a particularly aggressive way, it isn't a scandal waiting to happen. It's a scandal right...
...surprise here is not that police corruption exists or that there are, to use law-enforcement officials' favorite metaphor, always "a few bad apples." The question is why police departments appear locked in a perpetual cycle of scandal, repentance, pledges of reform and fresh scandal, seemingly unwilling or unable to police themselves. The answer in part lies in the way departments are set up and managed, and also within the hearts of the officers themselves. "The people in a position to do something about brutality and racism are products of the system," explains James Fyfe, a former New York City...
...offensive as Fuhrman's words may be, they are nothing when compared with the scandal in Philadelphia. To date, along with Brown, five other cops have pleaded guilty to such charges as setting up innocent victims, selling drugs and beating and threatening people, primarily poor blacks in the 39th District. As a result, 46 of their criminal convictions have been overturned, with many more still to come. Last week federal investigators expanded their search to include the Highway Patrol, subpoenaing logs of as many as 100,000 arrests over 10 years. "It's nothing new," says Jerry Day, sitting...
...Vice President's troops contrived a desperation strategy to provoke Dole to anger. "Make him blow, revive his 'hatchet man' image, make him seem too meanspirited to be President," recalls a top Bush aide who is now advising Dole. "That was the goal, and it worked." Every whiff of scandal, every scurrilous charge, every distortion of the Senator's record was lobbed at Dole with fury. The cumulative effect was decisive. After Bush won the New Hampshire primary, Dole angrily told Bush to "stop lying about my record" and was instantly toast...
...James as the future of American politics, and are advising Republicans nationwide to take note. But others say James is an anomaly. He was elected by a razor-thin margin--about 11,000 votes out of almost 1.2 million cast--in large part due to the weakness of the scandal-plagued Democratic incumbent. It will be three more interesting years before the state's voters decide whether the old days should be left behind...