Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tiny group of former and current female heads of state in the world, Bhutto has received both praise and blame for her work to further the cause of women...
...time I was personally wont to forgive Mandela for such impropriety for a different reason. I rationalized that this was a man who had just spent the better part of three decades behind bars, often in solitary confinement. Who could blame him if his world view was slightly out-of-sync with reality? According to this view it was understandable, even "to be expected," that Mandela would not be up to speed with the political norms and diplomatic niceties of the day. Both hypotheses were soon to be tested by the unfolding policies of the Mandelan presidency...
...breast-feed her baby when she could, otherwise preparing her milk for Woodward to bottle-feed him. "Everyone has child care in Newton," says Ellen Ishkanian, editor of the local News Tribune, who is sympathetic to Deborah Eappen. "This cuts to the quick. People have to assign some blame" and be able to exclude themselves from the guilt. "If she were a perfect mother, then it could happen to anyone...
...played out in Massachusetts last week, when a mild-mannered British au pair was convicted of murdering Matthew Eappen, an eight-month-old left in her care. As it turns out, there was another woman in the docket: the Working Mother. A banner outside the courthouse read DON'T BLAME THE NANNY, BLAME THE MOTHER. And observers of the trial who wrote, called talk radio and clogged the Internet did indeed blame the mother, ophthalmologist Deborah Eappen. Eappen became the embodiment of yuppie scum, a single-minded careerist pursuing psychic rewards and a grander house while leaving her newborn with...
...difficult to determine who to blame for this incredibly limiting view of what life or a career should be. Harvard deserves some of the onus, of course, but not as much as we might expect. After all, what is Harvard doing to us by not having any pre-professional majors if not screaming that we should stop being so obsessive about our future careers? The Office of Career Services has contributed its fair share, and students are right to blame it for its tight focus on finance, but other possibilities are there for those who look...