Word: blamed
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Many groups share blame for the destruction of the Great Hall in the Freshman Union. Harvard's planners, who have an otherwise excellent record for preserving and invigorating Harvard's historic buildings, are guilty of poor judgment. However, while their judgment on the hall's fate may have been wrong, it came through rational deliberation and can at least be respected as a professional decision. Harvard's administration is guilty of creating another public relations gaffe...
Pulling into his local Texaco station, Don McCullough, a Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, artist, blinked and looked again. The price for high-test gasoline had jumped overnight from $1.36 per gal. to $1.49. "I couldn't believe it," he says. Blame the steep increase on the Iraqis and a problem in a Philadelphia refinery, said the attendant...
...there is any silver lining, it is perhaps that Radcliffe's multidisciplinary panels saw no deliberate villainy or single cause for blame. "Everyone is looking for scapegoats--the government, welfare mothers, the private sector," says Marina Von Neumann, former chief economist for General Motors. "But there just aren't any scapegoats." Yet the flip side of that, points out Ann Bookman, policy and research director of the women's bureau of the Department of Labor, is that "no one sector can take this on single-handedly...
...errant rounds. A preliminary U.N. report however, shows that 15 shells hit the peacekeepers camp. U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had asked Israel for a "clarification" on the more damning aspects of the U.N. report, which is expected to be made public on Tuesday. Israel blames the bombing on a mapping mistake that miscalculated the location of the U.N. compound. An army spokesman said overcast skies prevented the gunners from seeing their target, but Marlowe says the video shows clear visibility over Qana. Despite a push from Boutros- Ghali for a resolution condemning Israel for the attack...
...Philadelphia police lieutenant Frank Powell, attempting to blame members of the radical group MOVE for setting the blaze that killed 11 people, including five children, and destroyed a block of homes, on May 13, 1995. The blaze began when Powell dropped a bomb containing C-4 explosive on the roof of MOVE's rowhouse on the fourth day of the group's standoff with police...