Word: blame
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...lesson to be taken from our nation's recent experience is that the young people sucked into the military, in war-time or in peace, are not to blame for and cannot be the focus of our anger and shame at our government's policies. Thus Professor Laurence W. Wylie's labeling of ROTC students as "students who wanted to practice killing their fellow human beings" is deeply disturbing...
...just becomes an endless battleground for the rest of the year, that's the end of the academic year--that's the end of everything. So the only way to cope with the situation is to take the building back right now. Quick. And then take the trouble, whatever blame they want to throw--we'll do that, but let's get that done...
Much of the blame can be laid at the doors of Duke's residential fraternities on West Campus, which physically and socially segregate minorities from the elite white-boys who live there. In the Theta Chi house, I saw only one minority. A glance at a decade's worth of group photos revealed only lily-white faces...
...root of the problem is neither renegade coaches nor avaricious institutions. It is a matter of societal values gone awry. "Don't blame the coaches for the problem of exploitation in our country," says Gayle Hopkins, an assistant athletic director at the University of Arizona. "Blame some of the communities that only respond to winning at any cost...
Defense Minister Valerio Zanone promptly stated he had seen no evidence suggesting that an Italian military aircraft had fired the missile. Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita launched a separate inquiry to examine the possibility that non-Italian forces were to blame, although NATO officials, the U.S. and France have said that their aircraft could not have been involved. Zanone's cautious denial, coupled with the fact that key evidence has already been destroyed, prompted press speculation that a government cover-up may have taken place. Commented the Rome daily Il Messaggero: "It's no certainty that we will ever know...