Word: blamed
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...Robert Charles Duran Mitchum, he was one of Hollywood's earliest bad boys. He came from a deliciously checkered past of arrests, odd jobs, and wanderings, and in 1948, he was arrested for possession of marijuana at the home of a starlet. In interviews, Mitchum liked to blame his image on publicists, calling himself "the ugly leading man" who needed the myth to cover his "lack of glamour." After a best supporting actor nomination in 1945 for "The Story of G.I. Joe," Mitchum hit the A-list and worked constantly, starring in over 100 films, including "Cape Fear," "River...
...Daschle's exception to the ban for women whose pregnancies could cause "grievous physical injury"--even though that closes the mental-health loophole. If it's disregard for life that turns girls like Melissa into murderous monsters, then the Republicans need look no farther than themselves for someone to blame...
...pages of documents to go through." Yet the sense of a lost opportunity is starting to infect the G.O.P. troops. "If the hearings are a success, fine, Thompson gets the credit," said a House leadership aide. "If they sputter and don't produce anything, Thompson gets the blame...
...voters' rejection of Chirac suggests that the French may have some congenital inability to face the competitive realities of the modern world. Most French analysts, however, put the blame on a failure of leadership. "Yes, the French have clung to an old social model, but by default," says economist Albert Bressand. "No other policy was articulated to them. The French are slow to modernize because of inappropriate leadership left and right...
...protection of minority Serb rights in the region, the White House is unlikely to do anything about it: " The elections have done nothing more than reinforce the Balkan status quo. The West has counted on Croatia for stability in the region, so it's not going to blame it now for an internal lack of democracy and human rights." With more than 90 percent of the total count in, Croatiannationalist strongman President Franjo Tudjman has won an easy victory, sidestepping Western media reports that incomplete voter lists had allowed only 10 percent of the country's thousands of ethnic Serbs...