Word: blamed
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...party, at, say, a final club, is asking to be raped; or that anyone who goes to a bar is inviting those around him who are drinking to beat him or her up. Clearly, this assumption is both unrealistic and unhealthy. The point Lewis makes is rather offensive, laying blame on the woman who is raped because she attends an establishment that permits drinking or on the man who gets beaten up at a bar. Lewis serves only to contradict himself, accusing the people who go to parties and bars rather than the alcohol which might cause such behavior...
...elements of the show, to attack his work as "poor judgment or sheer incompetence," and to downplay Bishop's excellence, is wrong. Mandel is welcome to her opinion, but the mean-spirited tone of the article was both unfair and unnecessary; the highlighted quotes and headlines only helped Mandel blame any and all problems with the show on Colapinto. Many who read the review were bothered, and I can only imagine just how disconcerting it was to the actors who had to take to the stage after reading...
That is not to blame the theory of communism per se as the cause of these famines--it can be argued that these famines are just examples of the poor execution (no pun intended) of the communist ideal. However, I do mean to point out that these regimes used the same rationale to justify their excesses: the rights of the collective over the rights of the individual...
...office hours and appointments. TFs unfailingly accommodate students seeking to meet outside of class; they are, after all, only TFs. Professors, however, have schedules that are more rigid. Research, travel and paperwork consume their time. Still, if professors do not spend enough time with students, we are more to blame than they are. Seniors, I have learned, have many reasons to spend time with professors. They typically have taken small seminars with some professors. They spend the spring of their junior year looking for a thesis adviser. They spend the fall of their senior year hitting up professors for letters...
...blame the National Enquirer for what the rest of the media has done is basically a case of the rest of the media washing their hands," he said...