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"So the scandal—the real scandal—is that 501(c)(4) groups have been engaged in political activity in such a sustained and open way."
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A Scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet
David Remnick reports from Moscow on the recent acid attack on the Bolshoi Ballet’s artistic director, Sergei Filin: “The ballet company has always uncannily embodied the society to which it belongs: imperial Russia, Soviet Russia, and, now, Vladimir Putin’s Russia…” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/12HWJJO
Photograph by Misha Friedman.
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Notes on (another) suppressed Chinese scandal: http://nyr.kr/XGI0sR
Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty.
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Are köttbullar the hot dogs of meatballs? Lauren Collins on the “Horsemeat Scandal,” now at IKEA: http://nyr.kr/YTzLHZ
Photograph: Jessica Gow/AFP/Getty.
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Emily Nussbuam on “House of Cards,” “Scandal,” and her Team Brian attitude to “The Office”: http://nyr.kr/Z39j0t
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Obama Urged to Resign Over Beyoncé Scandal→
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – A rising chorus of congressional Republicans are calling on President Obama to acknowledge that the pop singer Beyoncé lip-synched during his inaugural festivities on Monday and resign from office, effective immediately. Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/146tONx
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Michael Specter on Lance Armstrong, an American myth: “Everyone may lie, but here is what everyone doesn’t do…” http://nyr.kr/VZ4MfE
Photograph by George Burns/Oprah Winfrey Network/Getty.
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"The Petraeus scandal is what ensues when the national-security establishment inadvertently turns its spying apparatus on itself."
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Cartoon of the night by Sidney Harris. For more: http://nyr.kr/Vkda5Q
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Political Scene Podcast→
In this week’s Political Scene podcast, Ken Auletta and John Cassidy discuss new developments in Britain’s phone-hacking scandal: http://nyr.kr/MIZtPi
