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...creator who gave us “inalienable rights” has yet to extend those rights to same-sex marriages. Historically as Americans, we have used religion to comfort many in the midst of tragedy at certain times, and to cause tragedy for some at other times. Assigning blame or praise to religion for what we have done is as flawed as thinking that as an atheist country we would never have had slavery or never have had the Civil Rights Movement. The faith that most Americans have doesn’t necessarily make them better or worse people...
...furor over the incident is a case of hypersensitivity on all sides: Quad residents were unnecessarily territorial and were too quick filing a noise complaint—though during reading period it's tough to blame them—and the organizations hosting the event, the Association of Black Harvard Women and the Black Men’s Forum, were too hasty to use the R-word to describe the police's being called...
Thanks to the College’s new alcohol policy—approved last week by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—he can place the blame on the student organization’s leaders and tell the parents those leaders will be punished. What he probably will not say is that if those same policies were not in place their son or daughter might still be alive...
...trade relationship with China has been a minor issue on the political landscape, largely because U.S. unemployment is very low. But the economy is slowing, and an election year looms. If the U.S. economy stumbles, China will be the biggest, fattest target on which to pin the blame. Meanwhile, China will likely continue recycling its massive foreign reserves, possibly making itself an even bigger target by going on a buying spree similar to Japan's in the late 1980s and early '90s: Japan buys Hollywood! Japan buys Pebble Beach! Japan buys Rockefeller Center! Remember too, Japan was an ally...
...Shortly after that, Karpinski says, Pappas briefed Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the overall U.S. commander in Iraq. "At that point, Pappas just did not seem to be stable, but who could blame him after what he had just been through," says Karpinski, who was demoted after Abu Ghraib but has claimed that she was made a scapegoat in order to deflect blame from higher-ranking officers (She has since left the military.) "He was incoherent, maybe just running on adrenaline, but he would unpredictably shift from one topic to another...