Word: scandalous
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...conventional wisdom in Italy, in both press and political circles, seems to be that it's just Berlusconi being Berlusconi. The latest quip got only passing notice from Italy's center-left opposition, which is more focused on Berlusconi's ongoing sex scandal. Even the leading leftist daily, La Repubblica, referred to the remarks as the latest "Berlusconi Show." (See pictures of Italy...
...things - dubbed by Italians vitello, or veal - from his broadcasting empire into his Cabinet. He has deflected the political fallout from the nearly pornographic video of orgiastic parties at his villas. First-person accounts from prostitutes hired to entertain him, which would have a U.S. President in an impeachment scandal, are mere delicious newspaper morsels in Italy. (See the top 10 unsolved crimes...
...streets outside is through the gunsight aimed at insurgents and civilians. Which ones to shoot at? Which ones to save? Working as both a horrors-of-war screed and a depiction of men under impossible stress, Lebanon is an unrelentingly claustrophobic nightmare. (Read: "Lebanon's Bernie Madoff: A Scandal Taints Hizballah...
...drawn conservatives' ire ever since allegations of voter-registration fraud dogged the group in the 2008 election. So when an activist posing as an aspiring politician taped ACORN workers advising him on how to launder money from a brothel to fund his campaign, the knives came out. The scandal--along with recent charges that Florida staffers had falsified voter forms--has been a blow to the group, which works on behalf of low- and middle-income families. The U.S. Census Bureau dropped ACORN as a partner in the 2010 population count, and the Senate voted to strip...
...many ways, Gregory's reserve speaks for Detroit. Bing assumed the mayoralty in a special election in May, after the fall of Kwame Kilpatrick, whose promising political career was dashed in a sex-text-messaging scandal that led to a conviction on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Now Bing, 65, is facing a Nov. 3 election for a full term. To most Detroiters, Bing - despite his basketball fame - often seems a remote, unknowable figure, and the feeling is mutual. He only recently bought a home in the city and still maintains one in an affluent Detroit suburb...