Public anger after the revelation last year that the missing girl's phone had been hacked forced Murdoch to close the News of the World, which Brooks edited at the time of the hacking.
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There was only one thing truly astonishing about the revelation last week that Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's deputy at the State Department during George W. Bush's first term, was the source of Bob Novak's first column about Iraq war critic Amb.
Politically, it is another sign - following the revelation last year that the government is way off course to meet its borrowing targets - that George Osborne is currently failing in his own terms - ie: in his efforts to cut the debt and the deficit ahead of all other economic goals.
The scandal exploded more prominently last July with the revelation that in 2002 the News of the World hacked the phone of a missing 13-year-old girl who turned out to be murdered.
The New York Times' revelation of the program last week has provoked a bipartisan uproar in Congress, promises of congressional investigations and a suggestion by the White House that it will not cooperate because of the classified nature the program.
The folly of this switch by a group of activists who regularly claim their efforts are justified to fight global climate change is made obvious by the revelation late last year that US carbon emissions have plummeted to 1992 levels, largely as a result of widespread switching from coal to natural gas in the power generation sector.
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The abuse at one jail in the south of the city, Kahrizak, was so bad that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered it closed last month, after the revelation that the son of a top aide to a prominent conservative politician was among at least three prisoners who had died there.
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In the last days of the 1992 campaign, President Bush had that kind of revelation and jetted around the country, waving his arms and shouting himself hoarse.
Compounding the uncertainty is The Wall Street Journal's revelation last week that Goldman is under criminal investigation.
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But when Renault sacked Nelson Piquet Jr in July following a string of poor performances, the Brazilian's revelation that he deliberately crashed in Singapore last year to help team-mate Fernando Alonso win the race revived the sense that F1 has serious problems to address.
Last week, that happened to be the revelation of the cover art for Bioshock Infinite.
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But the sports world was rocked by the revelation that Landis may have taken steroids before his amazing comeback in the Alps last week.
The controversy surrounding the loans began with the revelation that a number of millionaires who loaned Labour large sums around the time of last year's general election were subsequently nominated by Tony Blair for seats in the House of Lords.
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Australian hospitals are targeting UK trusts with budget problems - a recruitment drive made easier by the revelation from the RCN to the health select committee last October that 19, 400 posts have been lost or frozen in the past year.
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On it already are the revelation that the chancellor can't remember when he last bought a pasty from Greggs, that you can eat them tax free if they're cold, that the ex-Tory treasurer suggested that a quarter of a million pounds bought you a place at a donor party with the Camerons.
Ofcom initially said it would assess whether News Corp. remained a "fit and proper" owner of BSkyB last summer, after the phone-hacking scandal blew up with the revelation that the News of the World hacked the voice mails of a murdered teenage girl.
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Last week, 60-Minutes re-aired a shocking revelation that the SEC was actually inside Lehman Brothers for most of 2008.
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Centre-half Thomas Vermaelen has been a revelation since his move from Ajax last year but lapses have cost the team as their title push faded towards the end of the campaign.
For much of last year, it was the victims' truth: no concealment, it seemed, just revelation upon revelation.
As President Bush tried last week to remind Americans of what went right, his own trip to Iraq was the clearest revelation about why so many Americans just are not listening anymore.
Even James Murdoch admitted, in evidence to MPs, that last week's revelation that his company had hired a private detective to spy on lawyers representing the victims of phone-hacking and their families was "appalling" and "unacceptable".
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