Word: blame
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Harvard received some of the blame for the increase in condominium conversions. "There's no doubt that the problem has been compounded by Harvard University expansion and subsidy programs, which will both reduce the number of liveable, affordable homes," David Sullivan, a Cambridge resident and lawyer for the Alliance of Cambridge Tenants, told the council...
...bickering, the probes, and the fear of hit men stalking their prey will not soon end. Yet the blame for the tragedy at Jonestown must rest primarily on Jim Jones. Even his 19-year-old son Stephan admitted, "I can almost say I hate this man." His father, Stephan said, "claimed he was afraid of nothing, which I know was bull. My father was a very frightened...
...consensus of those meetings was more constructive than the assignment of blame to any one agency or even to any one Administration: ever since the 1960s, when Britain was withdrawing from east of the Suez and the Shah proclaimed himself the guardian of the Persian Gulf, the U.S.Iranian connection has been a textbook case of what diplomats call "clientitis"-the fallacy of mistaking an ally's interests for one's own. The U.S. failed to see that the Shah was weak simply because it had long been a principle of policy, and therefore an article of faith, that...
...really can't blame the people involved in this production for reducing Sir William Gilbert's venomous social satire to the level of Broadway musical comedy. That's happened over the decades, and there's nothing any single director can do to change it. Audiences want their G & S lovable, and until someone comes along to persuade them otherwise, that's the way they...
OFFENSIVE LINE--Harvard, Brown and Cornell had great right sides this year, and Yale and Penn weren't too shabby straight across the front. I flipped coins to decide a couple of these, so blame my change if the picks are off the mark: Harvard's Mike Clark and Cornell's Mike Donahue at guard, Brown's John Sinnott and Harvard's Joe Kross at tackle, and Princeton's Andy Stephens at center. Second team for Harvard--Mike Durgin...