Word: slandered
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...VICTORIA BECKHAM Posh sued by a London shop for slander. Seems she said their clothes were so bad, even Ginger Spice wouldn't be caught dead in them
...cuts alone are no cure-all, and future surpluses will depend on the willingness of Congress to restrain federal outlays. But history shows that when lawmakers control their proverbial pocketbooks, tax cuts bring bigger surpluses over the long haul. For Daschle to blithely slander Republicans as trying to raid his imaginary trust fund is knavish and cheap. Low taxes and low spending are our best hope of funding reforms to save Social Security. Making the Bush tax cut permanent is a necessary first step to that...
...censor a word. "Helpful or harmful, information is information," he says. "It's not up to us to question the impact or consequences." Nishimura may be forced to tighten up, however. In March, Nippon Life Insurance asked the court to order Channel 2 to delete entries that appeared to slander one of its executives. "If the webmaster is aware of the defamatory postings but refuses to take action, then he can be held responsible," says Yasutaka Machimura, a law professor at Asia University in Tokyo. When loyal Channel 2 users heard of Nippon Life's legal action, however, they launched...
...Take the case of Elvira Mezhennaya, the 52-year-old chief editor of the City Channel, a TV station in Yaroslavl, some 270 km northeast of Moscow. She is due in court next week - the second time in three months - to face charges of slander for broadcasting a report alleging that regional financial inspector Nina Ryzhkova received a free apartment and financial rewards from Governor Anatoly Lisitsyn, the man whose operations Ryzhkova is supposed to supervise...
...mopping up of Mezhennaya began a year ago, when City Channel correspondent Alexander Kukin broadcast the report about Ryzhkova that led to the slander charge. Kukin also alleged that the heads of federal agencies in the region were beholden for their jobs to the governor. Mezhennaya says she would not have been surprised if the report had triggered a civil suit, "but criminal charges until now have been unheard of." She claims that investigators piled on the pressure, tapping her phones and impounding furniture from her modest one-bedroom apartment. While she was on vacation last autumn she popped...