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Scandalswhether in politics, academia, or other areascan be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that do speaker or reformer ever could. n) 丑闻确实可以很快集中公众的注意力集中到一些社会问题上面，对社会是有益的。政治上，Watergate，the scandal forever increased the level of scrutiny and accountability to which our public officials are held, thereby working a significant and lasting benefit to our society学术上，比如美国MIT的副教授一直在免疫学immunology学术界有很高声望，被揭露修改编造实验数据来伪造研究成果获取荣誉，后被学校开除。其他领域。2001年，ENRON虚报盈利、隐瞒巨额债务的丑闻被揭开，导致美国加大对会计监督accountings and statistics。 o) 过多的丑闻降低了政府的权威，掩盖了政府对社会做出的贡献。The U.N.s now-defunct Oil-for-Food Program is under investigation for alleged corruption and fraud, prompting some U.S. officials to call for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annans resignation. 可是联合国对世界和平和各国发展做出了更多的贡献，丑闻导致秘书长辞职，是联合国的损失 p) 对于国家，丑闻掩盖了那些更需要关注和解决的深层次的问题。过度丑闻耗费巨大人力财力，克林顿性丑闻耗费7000万美元，国会可以利用这些时间和金钱去处理更有意义的事情，such as the Kosovo crisis, our social-security crisis, and health-care reform, to name just a few。 | 
