Word: taint
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...computer science professor. Ad Board criminal convictions have no permanence or durability. Rapists leave Harvard only to return and eventually graduate with the same diploma and same clean police record as any other student. In contrast, police department criminal convictions stick, and rightfully so. A formal legal conviction would taint any job application and mar the history of any adult who has committed a sexual offense. Rapists would not have a vine of ivy behind which they could seek refuge...
...Rampart scandal. Two weeks ago, Garcetti was defeated in a bid for re-election by Stephen Cooley, who made the Rampart scandal the centerpiece of his campaign. Cooley has said he will set up a new division in the D.A.'s office dedicated to "pursuing anyone who attempts to taint the public justice system. Good cops will welcome a prosecutor who takes out the bad cops...
TIME: So no taint of disgrace adheres to Lloyd...
...Whitman, of course, is pro-choice and Eastern Republican. She springs from the same Eastern WASP aristocracy that produced Bush. But those facts do not hurt with independents. The chemistry of the Bush-Whitman ticket could be winning. The choice of Whitman for the Bush ticket would have no taint of the condescending gender-pander; an Al Gore-Diane Feinstein ticket, by contrast, would merely seem the crowning insincerity...
...people involved in the book who do seem camera shy is Helfrich, who didn't want his photo with this article. "A lot of guys see their own girlfriends through this book. I don't want to taint the photographs with my picture." His exes say he wasn't "conventionally handsome" in the '70s but was appealing in a skinny, David Bowie kind of way. He had, they say, a great rap. No kidding...