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...recognized that middle-class American life is just too complicated, perhaps even too inherently miserable, to get an intelligent handle on. You can't quite treat it as a tragedy, but you can turn to its first cousin - farce - and have some profitable fun with it. And who can blame them? Or us, for the benumbed state that something like Definitely, Maybe leaves...
...those who have do not view him positively. It is sad that he was never pardoned for violating a U.S. ban by playing a 1992 match in Yugoslavia. He was a chess champion who was not welcome in his own country. I think that may be partly to blame for his mental breakdown. He spent so much of his life as a fugitive - simply for playing a game of chess. Lauren Kuckelman, REEDLEY, CALIF...
...silver. As John Reader recounts in Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History, the flood of bullion proved more than the Old World could absorb. The unintended result: inflation that shredded Europe's social fabric, disrupted its monetary system and debased the precious metal itself. Blame it on the potato...
...truly brilliant educator. In its absence, policymakers have focused on that current measure of all things educational: student test scores. In districts across the country, administrators are devising systems that track student scores back to the teachers who taught them in an attempt to apportion credit and blame and, in some cases, target help to teachers who need it. Offering bonuses to teachers who raise student achievement, the theory goes, will improve the overall quality of instruction, retain those who get the job done and attract more highly qualified candidates to the profession-all while lifting those all-important test...
...they don't be careful there will be civil war," he said. "Why are they scared to talk at the table, sit publicly with open dialogue? Why are they so scared that they want to kill me?" He held Ramos-Horta and Gusmão partly to blame for the Same raid. "Ramos-Horta was in the meeting with Xanana when they agreed to do this thing," he said. "What threat do I make for this nation? Which civilian do I threaten or kill? I have a right also to defend myself." He vowed never to lay down his arms...