Word: unwittingness
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Financier Charles Keating's 68th birthday was not an occasion for celebration. Instead, a state-court jury in Los Angeles found the former head of California's Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose company sold $250 million in junk bonds to unwitting investors as it headed toward insolvency, guilty of 17 counts...
Britain's hostage ordeal ended with the return of Waite, the high-profile envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the last British captive in Lebanon. But as bells joyously tolled his freedom, the homecoming unleashed feverish speculation about the role the U.S. -- and maybe Waite himself -- had played in...
Morally, you might be angry with Clinton. Indeed, breaking a commitment to an unwitting spouse is not defensible. But Hillary has never been unwitting. It's likely that she knew about the affairs. (Besides, when have great presidents ever been moral presidents?)
How could an impeccably honest Bedouin sheik get stuck in a mess like this? Despite his solid-gold reputation, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates, found himself last week at the center of the largest global banking scandal ever...
Still, these are undeniably salad days for people interested in reading about scandal in high places. Never mind that this has been true for roughly the past 3,000 years. What of the adultery between a queen and a prince that launched a 10-year war and ruined a nation...