In the past two or three years, a series of investigations has finally begun to demolish a persistent and very damaging state of denial about the extent of child sexual abuse in this country.
Rick Perry of Texas is one of the least thoughtful and most damaging state leaders in America," thundered the New York Times; nonetheless, the indictment "appears to be the product of an overzealous prosecution".At issue is Mr Perry's response to an episode in April last year.
I don't know many people in Britain who are able to listen to Korn with a smile on their face (sorry, Korn fans, I don't know how to do the backwards 'R'), but then I don't know many British hooligan firms that'd take to the streets to help angry students and left-wing protesters fight the police over damaging state healthcare reforms.
Or perhaps they just don't care anymore (if they ever did), their disapproval blunted by their own moral fragility and by bigger and far more damaging state-sponsored ethical failings.
Separately, party officials said, Mr. Cuomo called donors on Thursday and raised $250,000 for Democratic candidates for the State Senate, whose fund-raising dried up because of a damaging report by the state inspector general.
In North Carolina, Republican governor Pat McCrory inspired a wave of revulsion and a damaging boycott of the state by high-profile businesses and entertainment stars with his anti-transgender "bathroom bill".
SACRAMENTO — Thousands of emails newly released by the state Public Utilities Commission present a damaging portrait of former PUC President Michael Peevey as a micromanaging, domineering leader who appears to have overstepped his role.
In a damaging interview he disparaged other parts of the state.
Mr Smith pleaded guilty in a 1999 trial to a state charge of computer theft and to a federal charge of sending a damaging computer program.
Grief is such a damaging thing.
