Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government, U.S. Senator Charles T. "Chuck" Hagel (R-Neb.) outlined his goals for American foreign policy in light of the current global economic crisis and the recent Clinton scandal...
...blasted Ken Starr, whose report the committee will be weighing, as "the poster boy for unethical prosecutors." Republican bomb thrower Bob Barr has attacked Clinton's "systemic abuses" of the "political process" and demanded an inquiry into his impeachment--and that was last year, before the Monica Lewinsky scandal even broke...
...news cycle has bleached the scarlet A. When used to bludgeon a political foe, adultery is not a human tragedy but a political one. "Will it hurt his poll numbers?" becomes the question, not how broken and scarred a spouse and children may be. With the press reveling in scandal (although we insist that we are not), even good people make bad excuses, searching for an asterisk to put beside their adultery ("It's old," "I was young," "It's over," "My wife forgave me"). The result is to "define adultery down" (with credit to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
Still, like a good pol, Tuttle knows the right thing to say. "I'd try to straighten out that sex scandal," he replies when asked what Senator Tuttle would do. But the lifelong Republican might have trouble in his caucus with ideas about retaining welfare and increasing the minimum wage. As for foreign affairs, he asks a reporter hopefully, "I don't know about foreign affairs...
...statehouse office and improperly reporting the sale of land to a political ally to support his family while he campaigned. He has also been accused of indicating that he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy when in fact he left in his second year. Lucas argues that the scandal works to his advantage. "I have no fear," he says. "In fact, I may be benefiting from all the talk about character and morals...