Word: scandal
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...foreign policy drift precedes the Lewinsky scandal. In fact, the CTBT debacle confirms a steady trend throughout the '90s of diminishing attention to Washington?s international commitments, and a diminishing of the office of the presidency as the locus of foreign policy decision making. Voting down an arms control agreement painstakingly negotiated with Washington?s key allies and adversaries would have been almost unthinkable during the Cold War. Not that the Senate didn?t have the constitutional right to do so, but the global conflict with the Soviets created a political culture in which partisan debates ended at America...
...PREMISE: The masterpiece of American jazz legend Cole Porter, this musical's story is full of silliness, romance and scandal aboard an old-style luxury liner. Remaining true to the style of its era, it's pure entertainment with plenty of characteristically energetic song and dance...
When asked about the 1991 Tailhook scandal, in which Navy aviators allegedly groped and assaulted female guests at a party, Ventura said that while he doesn't condone what happened, "I understand...
Said is by no means inventor of the art of the suspect but emblematic personal history. Last year a similar scandal erupted regarding I, Rigoberta Menchu, the autobiography of a Mayan peasant whose story of the horrors wrought by Guatemalan authorities became an international sensation...
...death of 2,000 people at Jasenovac ? described as the Auschwitz of the Balkans ? in 1944, was convicted Monday and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. "They didn?t have much choice but to put him on trial, because letting him go free would have caused an international scandal," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. The Sakic sentence came in the context of repeated attempts by Croatia?s current president, Franjo Tudjman, to resurrect the reputation of Croatia?s wartime pro-Nazi Ustashe regime, which enthusiastically rounded up Serbs, Jews and Gypsies and ran its own concentration camps during...