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...powers of national authorities able to make decisions regarding who should lead a special investigations unit.” The U.S. Department of State countered that the U.S. has had peaceful, non-intrusive relations with the country. Regardless of whether the U.S. is guilty of the accusations, the scandal??s message sends negative signals to the rest of Latin America. This is not the kind of positive image America ought to be cultivating with Latin American countries...

Author: By Anthony J. Bonilla | Title: Diplomacy Gone South | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...Outside Portland’s City Hall, people waved placards and shouted “pedophile” in protest of his continued service. Major papers such as The Oregonian dubbed the affair a “sex scandal?? and the relationship, “inappropriate.” Rare is coverage of the affair that doesn’t in some way construct the relationship as the older, experienced man taking advantage of a young boy, confused and overwhelmed by his own sexuality. Yet critics insist that their disgust at Adams’s behavior comes about...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Hypocrisy on Tap | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

Kenneth W. Starr—the lead prosecutor of President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal??arrived at Harvard Law School yesterday night to deliver a talk on the Roberts court and its decisions on business cases, but during the course of the conversation, Starr’s controversial decision to work towards upholding Proposition 8 generated mixed views among students. Starr, a former United States solicitor general, was named as lead counsel for the official proponents of Proposition 8 last December. The California proposition, which eliminated same-sex couples’ right to marry, has remained...

Author: By Ellie Reilly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Starr Defends Prop. 8 Position | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...phat” or “e-zines,” embraced by media outlets and hopelessly dated in six months. It isn’t even being misused. Awkward is a state of being. And it has come to define our generation. From the Clinton scandal??or, as we remember it, that time in fifth grade when our parents were suddenly compelled to explain the concept of oral sex—to the Kanye outburst after Katrina, our lives have been a nonstop parade of awkward. Even Collegehumor.com’s evocative Awkward Rap?...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Generation Awkward | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...with the Tennessee Democratic Party mired in scandal??the secretary of state had committed suicide and the previous majority leader had been elected while serving a prison sentence—Purcell barely won the position of House majority leader...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Purcell, a Career of Focusing on Youth | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

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