Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Funding for student groups and underappreciated projects like CPR courses will be doled out in undramatic fashion. Devoted members will quietly work with faculty committees to improve the life at Harvard in small ways. A "scandal" may occur, basically from one or two members doing something rash and knuckle-headed...
...look around us today, we find nothing but Kissinger-style diversionary tactics which are meant to scare the American public into silence and blur our moral obligations. President Bush seems shocked that we want to know about his arms deals with Iraq, his possible complicity in the Iran-contra scandal, his rush for a land war against Saddam Hussein and any number of other issues which question his judgment as president. When he criticizes the media for hyping issues "the American people" care nothing about, he is in fact imagining a silent majority, telling us what we want to know...
...considered firing him, while Kissinger referred to Nixon behind his back as "our drunken friend" and the "meatball mind." Isaacson also details Kissinger's passionate distrust of even his closest aides, which led to his wiretapping them and helped lay the foundation, Isaacson argues, for the Watergate scandal. But more important, Kissinger also contains the most credible account of Nixon and Kissinger's inability to disengage from the Vietnam War and the collapse of Kissinger's detente strategy...
...District Judge Marvin Shoob allows Drogoul to change his plea this week, it is sure to re-open questions about the government's awareness of the financial chicanery surrounding Iraq's military buildup. Though a retrial by jury would be months away, the specter of the "Iraq-gate" scandal would surely hang, unresolved, over the Bush White House until well after the November election...
...wildly successful Roberts campaign encounters a few obstacles along the way, the most successful of whom is Bugs Raplin (Giancarlo Esposito), a reporter for Troubled Times. Raplin uncovers a scandal linking Roberts, drugs, Iran-Contra and the HUD fiasco. The effect is to give this campaign comedy the elements of a suspense thriller...