Her grandmother perished in a concentration camp, but not before the grandfather obtained a divorce so as to remove any taint of Jewish sympathy; her father, freed from a Nazi camp by the Russians, expressed his enthusiasm for the liberators by becoming a bureaucrat in the People's Militia; her husband, a historian and philanderer, performed his betrayals on the domestic front.
Late Saturday night, Mr. ElBaradei, a presidential contender, said in a statement that he was willing to forgo a future presidential campaign if he was asked to head an interim civilian government to complete the transition, an effort to remove any taint of personal interest or ambition.
Though some Democrats had joined Republicans last week in calling for a special election to remove all taint from the Senate succession, Democratic lawmakers grew leery of the idea because it raised the possibility that a Republican could win the seat.
The aide said that his camp was particularly delighted that the Miami-Dade ballots would be counted by judges, which would help remove any taint of partisanship.
Culling pictures from gay pornography sites, he electronically blotted over the naked bodies to remove all taint of sexuality and called viewers' attention to the nasty bits: the clashing light switch plate, the stereo speaker used as a shelf, the pile of magazines splayed on the floor.
And in the Telegraph, Harry WIlson argues that libor-fixing should be treated like doping in professional cycling: If RBS and other banks are truly to put this scandal behind them they must drop this approach and take a leaf out of the Team Sky reaction to doping, where anyone with the slightest link to past misbehaviour has been asked to leave to remove all taint from the organisation.
>Technical talks on Friday included presentations on new techniques developed at Cornell to manage or prevent undesirable wine aromas, including an inexpensive and accurate way to measure elemental sulfur pesticide residues on grapes and a new method to remove "ladybug taint"—an earthy off-aroma that appears in wine made from grape clusters with a few stowaway ladybugs.
He added that the "upward modulation of the chorus, accompanied by some overdubbed self-harmonies that feature a very controlled and effective use of Madonna's highest register, is sheer brilliance, giving the song a steely resolve that removes any taint of self-pity from the verses".
"I think it is a show of solidarity with the Fed's objective with removing any taint of borrowing from the discount window," said Paul McCulley, a portfolio manager at Pimco, a big fixed-income money management firm.
FIFA has since introduced a number of reforms that have failed to remove the taint of an old-boys' club that is accountable only to itself.
