That Nancy Pelosi, who had promised to "drain the swamp" and create "the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history," instead resisted calls to remove scandal-plagued Ways and Means Committee chairman Charlie Rangel from his post.
See articleStill smarting from an electoral rebuff, Malaysia's prime minister, Abdullah Badawi, shuffled his cabinet, removing several scandal-tainted ministers and promoting a prominent judicial reformer.
One goal is to remove the adjective "scandal-plagued" from curia.
By closing the weekly News of the World, which is 168 years old and its circulation is the largest for a Sunday newspaper in Britain, Mr. Murdoch seems determined to try to limit damage from the scandal and remove a possible obstacle to the takeover of British Sky Broadcasting, known as BSkyB.
Mr. Hevesi, who spent more than two decades in the State Assembly, has run for election in the past as a reformer, even starting his 1993 race for comptroller with a promise to "remove any hint of scandal or conflict of interest from the comptroller's office".
"Murdoch is clearly banking on this drawing a line under the scandal, removing an obstacle to the BSkyB deal, and letting his senior executives off the hook.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has remained largely removed from the scandal surrounding Mr. Wulff, whom she picked to run for the largely ceremonial presidency in 2010.
He has won seven elections in the Chhindwara district since 1980 (his wife won another in his stead, after a financial scandal removed him from the race).
Then the new boss could have chosen an accountant, perhaps someone who had been running a regional office well removed from the scandal, to direct the firm.
While Facebook has been working diligently to patch app platform privacy holes since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, removing access to many APIs and strengthening human reviews of apps, issues like today's make it hard to believe Facebook has a proper handle on the data of its 2 billion users.
Since then, the state has moved quickly to restructure some of its offices and remove those affiliated with the scandal.
