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Under canonical law, Spagnolia can still appeal to the Vatican for reinstatement, but if he is later exonerated, to whom can he appeal for restoration of his reputation? The Cardinal’s removing him from the parish has already left an indelible stain, whether or not he is later absolved of wrongdoing...
Corruption has also tainted these Games, no matter how much Mitt Romney, Senator Orrin Hatch and the rest of the Salt Lake Olympic Commitee (SLOC) try to bury the story. Much of the stain on the Olympic Games in the past five years has come from the scandal over 1995’s selection of Salt Lake City as the host city...
...when the first Senate hearing on Enron got under way, it felt less like an inquiry and more like a warm, ritual bath designed to soak away the stain of contributions. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who got $2,000 from Enron and $11,500 from Arthur Andersen in the past decade, invited former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt, the nation's leading accounting hawk, to do the scrubbing and apply the rinses. That gave Senator Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, who was until recently the subject of a federal probe into his campaign finances, a chance to apologize to Levitt...
...Bush has brought dignity and morality back to the position of President of the United States";"the world's only remaining superpower is not having to waste precious time contemplating what 'is' is."; "understands that the presidency and the country are not about him. No scandals, no impeachments, no stain." Nor was the praise confined to Republicans: "I'm not a Bush fan, I voted for Gore, but clearly President Bush is the Person of the Year." And if some already put him in the presidential pantheon ("His leadership has inspired this country to come together like the leadership...
...Israelis were released on Nov. 17, and are in Cleveland while their INS paperwork is being processed. Two have been ordered to remain in the U.S., while the other nine, including Sabag, were granted voluntary departure status, avoiding the stain of deportation. "We thought that everybody accepts you if you don't do anything wrong in America," says Sabag. "Last year when I visited, it wasn't like this." This is a very different year...