Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suicide of Chang H. Jo '00 before spring break is very painful and the impulse to blame Harvard's indifferent support network is strong. This institutional critique, however, masks the deeper attitudinal problem that isolates suicides as fringe events committed by disturbed persons. By refusing to acknowledge just how ordinary suicides and their victims are, we--administrators and students--make their occurrence more likely...
...stumbles, it is spectacular. Two weeks ago, he made a legitimate claim that he was one of the Internet's earliest promoters and turned it into a audacious boast that he invented it. The gaffe damaged him in an area where his contrast with Clinton is favorable: credibility. Some blame for all this falls on Gore's jumbled and evolving campaign organization, which functions like a board of directors without a chairman, leaving his vice-presidential staff with the task of damage control. Still lacking is what one strategist calls the "mad genius"--the big-thinking Lee Atwater/James Carville/Dick Morris...
...little has changed. The outcome of NATO's Balkans adventure still remains in Milosevic's hands. What most officials in Washington hope will happen is, by definition, wishful thinking. They hope he will now agree to something like the autonomy deal the Kosovars have already signed and will simply blame NATO for forcing him into it. (Oddly, one thing NATO and Milosevic do have in common is a belief that Kosovo should not be an independent state.) But few people think that is about to happen...
...issues have computer executives shuddering as the PC business matures into one in which price trumps brand and profit margins are narrowing. Dukker's company is the upstart leader in the ultracheap market that is suddenly rewriting the business model of the personal-computer industry. It's partly to blame for the recent sell-off of technology stocks that has driven major computer-manufacturer share prices down as much as 40%. (Want to know why we didn't make Dow 10,000 on our first run at it? Three letters: IBM.) There was a time in the mid-'90s when...
...focused. This is all the more remarkable since, as she calmly informs Cardis, last October she underwent surgery for breast cancer. In the days before her forgiveness sessions, such a setback would have sent her into a vortex of helpless rage, and she admits, "At first I wanted to blame someone." That passed, however. The cancer has apparently not spread, and she values her new composure. "I can buy another breast," she explains. "I can't buy another life...