Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could really blame Gilligan for his seeming faux pas because he was telling the simple truth. The only Harvard fans were the player's parents and friends...
...They can't blame the IRS for that. It was Congress, after all, that passed the Byzantine 10,000-page code currently in place. And filling many of those pages are the breaks, loopholes and other gifts that lawmakers have been publicly decrying ? and privately inserting ? since the days of the tithe...
...with some dread. Frequently over the past six weeks, the dinner conversation had turned to speculation over the criticism he might face when he returned to Earth. Foale, the Westerner, was convinced he would face none. Tsibliyev, the Easterner, familiar with Russia's long history of finger-pointing and blame laying, was not so sure. "Michael, you don't know what our system is like," he would...
...question "Kto vinovat?" (Who's to blame?) has long haunted Russia. Searching for scapegoats--be it at the behest of Bolsheviks, Stalinists or the Russian Space Agency--is a native tradition. But Vasili Tsibliyev, after surviving the premature judgment of Boris Yeltsin (who blamed Mir's woes on "the human factor"), has hit the ground fighting. "They can convict me," he says, "but what'll they do when the next crisis comes?" Though the new crew on Mir has been beset by their own troubles, Tsibliyev won't gloat. "If the crew weren't prepared, they...
...treatment of women by the ultra-extremist authorities of Afghanistan's Taliban [WORLD, Oct. 13] is among the worst human rights abuses of the century. The U.S. must take some of the blame. We supported the Afghan "freedom fighters" in their war against the Soviet Union. A good start at restitution would be the imposition of sanctions against Afghanistan, the kind that finally toppled South African apartheid. And since the Taliban forbids foreign-aid workers to offer assistance to women, U.N. aid ought to be halted in areas held by this vicious regime. I fear, however, that women are still...