Word: blame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there, liberals as well as conservatives, Democrats as well as Republicans, who say that this country has just gotten too angry in recent years, too nasty and certainly too vulgar. There?s this tendency to believe that this stuff just happens in societies-societies just evolve; nobody?s to blame. I don?t believe that. I think people are to blame. These aren?t the 100 worst people in America; they?re 100 people who in my view are screwing things up. And some of the names are there for fun. I mean, Courtney Love...
...with a traditional good-luck ceremony featuring a carved suckling pig. (Ironically, Disney kicked up trouble not by being too American but by being too Chinese. Disney offered to serve shark-fin soup at banquets, but the local favorite got yanked from the menu in June after environmentalists, who blame consumption of the delicacy for endangering the global shark population, howled in protest.) "Disney has learned that they can't impose the American will--or Disney's version of it--on another continent," says Dennis McAlpine of McAlpine Associates, a securities-research firm specializing in media and entertainment. "They...
...senior U.S. counterterrorism official said that online claim was “potentially very credible,” and several British authorities, including Prime Minister Tony Blair, suggested Islamic extremists were to blame for the carnage...
...hope is that dumping such stocks en masse will persuade companies to cease working in Sudan, and the resulting economic pressure, like that applied to South Africa during apartheid, will push the government to rein in the Arab Janjaweed militias--which international monitors blame for the deaths of more than 70,000 black Darfuris since 2003. "It stops us from being directly complicit in genocide," says recent Harvard graduate Brandon Terry, who led the effort there. A spokeswoman for Siemens, targeted by activists for building infrastructure in Sudan, says the German firm "takes the concerns seriously" but that shutting down...
While few Iraqi residents would probably say their living conditions have improved over the past year, they do have a new object of ire: Iraqis now blame their woes as much on the government elected in January as on the Americans. That's encouraging news, a sign that Iraqis realize they can't depend on the U.S. to solve all their problems. But it's also a reminder of how far Iraq has to go. In his speech last week, Bush said that "the best way to complete the mission is to help Iraqis build a free nation that...