21.   And, Matalin notwithstanding, this scandal is not sex-free.

22.   And the scandal is not over yet.

23.   And then there was the scandal at Southern Methodist University.

24.   As for presidential politics, the Clinton scandal is a serious setback for Gore.

25.   As nightmarish as his Vietnam experience was, McCain once surprised Senate staff members by telling them that the Keating Five scandal was even tougher.

26.   At past Olympics, the real scandal had not been that athletes succumb to the pressure to go higher, faster, farther through chemistry.

27.   Back then, McCain said the Keating Five scandal was a more nightmarish experience than his years in a North Vietnamese prison camp.

28.   Because cash is a more comprehensible temptation, money scandals are somehow more survivable than a Murdochian scandal that mocks and titillates.

29.   Beyond sex and lying and recklessness, this scandal is really about the selfishness of the man at the top.

30.   A good scandal like that would be helpful.