Word: scandalizing
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Italy's relentless investigations into corruption are now focusing on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, himself elected in reaction to the shadiness of his predecessors. If scandal brings down his government any time soon, Berlusconi's will take its place among a long series of famously short-lived postwar governments in Italy, where the citizenry certainly take to heart Thomas Jefferson's dictum "that government governs best which governs least...
...past two months. In a nation where men in uniform were once accorded a respect that borders on reverence, ordinary citizens were outraged to read reports that officers from the Western Group of Forces in Germany had personally profited from the withdrawal of Russian troops. The dimensions of the scandal are hard to measure, but by some estimates the state may have lost as much as $65 million to illegal financial deals involving the sale of military property in Germany during the past four years. To defuse mounting public criticism, President Boris Yeltsin dismissed General Matvei Burlakov from his post...
...Scandal plagues Moscow's military and the man who leads...
...Molecular biologist David Baltimore was 36 when TIME selected him for the 1974 list; the following year he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and in 1990 he became president of Rockefeller University, an ultra-prestigious research institution. But 18 months later, he resigned as a result of a scandal over data falsified by one of his researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Robert Sanchez, the Archbishop of Sante Fe, made our 1974 list. He was accused of having sex with several women and resigned in 1993. Of all the 250 former future leaders, however, Richard Ravitch may have achieved...
About a month after its Senate counterpart delivered ascathing assessment of the CIA's handlingof the Aldrich Ames spy scandal, the House Intelligence Committee weighed in today with a verdict that the agency took a "negligent attitude" in trying to find the mole and stop him from damaging worldwide U.S. intelligence operations. Rep. Dan Glickman (D-Kan.), the committee chairman, called the Ames affair "a case of sloppiness in big capital letters" -- in part because the CIA didn't tell Congress it suspected a double-agent was loose in its ranks. The FBI also came under fire for being "inexplicably...