Word: blame
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...it’s a sign of mental toughness to go through the hard-fought battle and get through,” she added.HIGH IMPACTIf Harvard wasn’t making excuses for its performance by citing fatigue or game conditions, it certainly wasn’t going to blame injuries. But losses sustained both before and during the game might have hurt the Crimson down the stretch.Co-captain Nikki Rhodes, who had appeared in every game in 2008 and started about half of them, sat out all 110 minutes on Friday night. But in the round of penalty kicks...
...Last Friday brought notice that the relationship between the two would soon be returning to form when South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint became the first high-profile Republican to lay the blame for McCain's loss on McCain himself. "We have to be honest, and there's a lot of blame to go around," DeMint told a GOP gathering in Myrtle Beach, S.C. "But I have to mention George Bush, and I have to mention Ted Stevens, and I'm afraid I even have to mention John McCain." DeMint then offered a list of McCain's anti-conservative apostasies, including...
...like horses on a merry-go-round. Every day the same horses go around inside our heads. Old grievances, unforgotten pain, resentment, anger, failure and insecurity - the circle keeps turning." Through his books, videos and workshops, Chopra offers a ticket off that merry-go-round. He is hardly to blame if, to date, there has been no shortage of takers...
...distinctly Cantabrigian pathology I’ve described has really very little to do with whether we face comps, apps, shoots, punches, or plain-old ballots. It’s the competition itself, the mentality of winning, that is to blame...
Certainly there is no denying that the Windy City's storied political history is cartoonishly coarse and corrupt. The charge that in Chicago, residents "vote early and vote often," dates back to the election that followed the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Finger-pointing about who was to blame for the fire and its spread raised fears about electoral hanky-panky and led some voters to cast more than one ballot. In the early 20th century, a compromised police force and city administration allowed organized crime to thrive. Even the city's first commissioner of public welfare, a woman named...