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When the FBI raided his daughter's home three weeks before Election Day, Pennsylvania Congressman Curt Weldon figured he knew exactly whom to blame. The agents were looking for evidence that he had used his influence to help Karen Weldon win lobbying and consulting contracts, but the 10-term Congressman wasn't mad at just them. "It's a woman who runs an organization called CREW," he complained to a blogger for the Daily Pennsylvanian. That woman is a tenacious 40-year-old former prosecutor named Melanie Sloan, whose targets have included Tom DeLay and Mark Foley. She is executive...
...Folding Newspapers Michael Kinsley's piece on the apparently dismal future of the newspaper industry made some valid arguments about the value of traditional journalism [Oct. 2]. Kinsley's attempt, however, to place most of the blame for newspapers' decreasing readership on the Internet and bloggers-whom he characterized as "some acned 12-year-old in his parents' basement recycling rumors"-is simply ridiculous. Kinsley's hyperbolic criticism confirms many of the reasons for the general distrust of mainstream media. Kristine F. Collins Providence, Rhode Island...
...years, but only about 1% of them develop anorexia. "What I'm guessing," Mondraty says, "is that when those with an underlying biological vulnerability lose a certain amount of weight, then something happens ... this [brain abnormality] clicks in. The significance of this is that it takes a bit of blame away from the family, away from the patient, and lets us - the people who treat anorexia - realize how hard it is for the young woman to get better. We're telling her to eat when everything she's experiencing is telling her she's already...
...9/11 Blame Game It's hard to believe the Bush and Clinton camps are still pointing fingers. But all this dynastic rumble has done is remind us that both sides are to blame...
...think people are down on Republicans, more than they are down on conservatives," Nickolas said. "They feel Republicans have been running the ship of state aground, and they are not going to blame Lucas...