Word: scandalizing
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...When big money intersects with horse racing, however, even the most polished institution can get a little mud on its linen. The arrival of the Year of the Horse finds the Jockey Club bogged down in its worst gambling scandal in memory. Last month, two of the club's top jockeys, South African Robbie Fradd and Irishman John Egan, were called in for questioning in a race-fixing investigation conducted by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption. According to the ICAC, a four-month probe called Operation Green turned up evidence that racing professionals were providing inside information...
Fresh evidence of this came last week when, as European Union officials excoriated the U.S., the French government balked at opening its household electricity market to foreign competition. French officials in Brussels cited the recent California energy crisis and the Enron scandal as evidence of the perils of opening up the sector to privatization. Strange then that the French national electricity company EDF, flush with cash from its virtual domestic monopoly, has been snapping up energy utilities in countries where the market has already been opened...
Collingwood said Friday that his decision to resign was not solely based on the recent scandal...
Both Tauscher and moderator David Nyham ’62, a former columnist and associate editor of The Boston Globe, blamed the media for its lack of responsibility in political coverage, which they said has dwindled and become more scandal-driven in recent years...
...scrutiny is not the only piece of aggressive journalism to appear since the scandal surfaced. Indeed, a few of my fellow columnists have, in these very pages, condemned the pair for everything from social climbing to stupidity, before opining, with great conviction, that they get what they deserve. This chorus of criticism has been door-dropped daily in front of Suzanne’s and Randy’s rooms (they’re both still on campus) and when they wake up in the morning they have the unfortunate privilege of knowing what the rest of us can only...