"And it should be afraid, given its level of scandal over internal abuses and hypocrisy in combating poverty".
In depositions released this month, Bishop McCormack testified that he and other Boston archdiocesan officials had been reluctant to tell parishioners about accused priests because they feared the move would, in part, "raise it to the level of scandal".
And while the Internet can be unnervingly adept at fostering groupthink and ginning up nearly anything to the level of scandal, it's false to suggest, as Burr does, that all the criticism that comedians face is merely "manufactured outrage".
However, none of this generated nearly the same level of scandal and controversy that Amy Winehouse, Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton would have done in the mid-2000s". .
The experimentation reached the level of public scandal in 1998, when two Amish teenagers were arrested in Pennsylvania for drug trafficking.
But Bishop McCormack, now the leader of the diocese of Manchester, N.H., said he and other senior church officials had rejected the idea in part because they were afraid public notification about sexual abuse by members of the clergy "would raise it to the level of a scandal".
John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, FDR, Dwight Eisenhower, LBJ, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and both Bushes faced some level of sex scandal in the lead-up to, during, or after their terms.
Discusses social conditions: few economic disparities, low level of violent crime, national love of scandal.
Peter J. Stang, the editor of the chemical journal, said that while the retractions were hardly at the level of the fabrication scandal that toppled the South Korean stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo Suk, "these are important areas and papers".
If there is a scandal to be reported at all, it is this: the media stoked a controversy without properly investigating the issues, choosing to inflate trivialities to the level of an international scandal, without regard for the facts or individuals affected.
Educated at a wide array of institutions (a convent, a girls' institute, a lavish private school, a tatty one in a rural village), shamed or befriended according to the family's current level of respectability or scandal, Weldon became resilient and resourceful while her sister had "a sadness and coldness growing inside her" that led to eventual tragedy.
