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...with the U.N. For years--decades, in fact--these conservatives have alternately denounced or dismissed the international body for its inefficiency and bias. Their view of the U.N. sank to new lows after the Security Council refused to authorize the invasion of Iraq. But nothing has done more to tarnish U.N. credibility than the metastasizing oil-for-food scandal, which has grown from a fringe obsession among conservative ideologues to the subject of five separate congressional investigations. All this has trained the hot lights on Annan, a second-term Secretary- General and Nobel Peace laureate who finds himself fighting...
...know that Fat Albert is a clean thing, and it’s a Cosby thing, and I wouldn’t want to do anything to tarnish it, but I want also to be free to do whatever is funny for me,” says Thompson...
Such an isolated error—emerging from the gloaming after two decades—should not, and will not, tarnish the reputation of America’s leading and most creative constitutional scholar. The country and the legal profession should be as proud and grateful as we are that Professor Tribe continues to work as hard and conscientiously as he has for the past forty years...
...former dean of Stanford Law School said yesterday that The Standard’s allegations should not tarnish Tribe’s reputation...
...columnist Andrew Sullivan's essay on the Senate's defeat of the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage [July 26]: For anyone to claim that the weddings of same-sex couples somehow tarnish the sanctity of marriage is absolutely ridiculous. How sacred is marriage when two people can be wed by an Elvis impersonator in a Las Vegas drive-through chapel? If gay marriage is such a threat and heterosexual marriage is so sacred, why isn't the religious right working to create a constitutional amendment to ban divorce, thus preserving the sanctity of marriage forever? LOUIS FUENTES San Antonio, Texas...