Word: taint
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...Christophe Mitterrand, in a new book, exonerates himself not only of those charges but also of his life in general. In Mémoire Meurtrie (Battered Memory), Mitterrand fils, 54, casts himself as - what else? - a victim, first of a hard, cynical family, and then of outsiders hoping to taint the powerful father?s reputation through attacks on the sensitive...
...Stripped of their earth-shaking significance, and losing their weeklong taint of guilt, sporting events (and movies, and non-news television) once again serve as no more than pleasant diversions. That?s a pretty big deal these days, of course: Always a country of escapists, America is desperate for a chance to hide from our own thoughts for a while...
...through his wife that he secured the connections that would launch his first successful business: leasing computers to the police department. This venture would also be the first to bear the taint of cronyism and conflict of interest that has also been a hallmark of Thaksin's vast financial success. He insists there was no impropriety to his working for the police department while he was leasing it equipment. His wife ran the operation, almost as a blind trust, Thaksin has always said. (Business partners who knew him during that period say Thaksin was always intimately involved in running...
...Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, plunging Europe into World War I. And on the same day in 1989, Milosevic--speaking at Kosovo Polje--launched his career as the defender of Serbian nationalism. Twelve years later, he finds himself imprisoned while his country is broken, indebted and marred by a moral taint that will take years to undo...
...taint of scandal changed those odds. With his popularity surging, Strauss-Kahn resigned under suspicion of pocketing $97,000 for bogus legal work before his 1997 appointment as minister. Though that payment was later proved legitimate, Strauss-Kahn faces trial in May on charges of backdating documents to prove his innocence in the case. Then last September Strauss-Kahn watched as a surreal scandal plaguing conservatives turned against him. The affair involved a videotaped confession by a since-deceased operative detailing an illegal financing scheme in the early 1980s and '90s allegedly run by President Jacques Chirac's conservative Rally...