Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge License Commission applauds the Cops In Shops program, the Cambridge Licensee Advisory Board, the Cambridge Police and the Cambridge Substance Abuse Task Force for all their work on this program. The License Commission cannot always blame the package store. It takes two parties, and sometimes three, to make an illegal purchase...
...There is no such thing as an accident," lawyer Mitchell Stevens (Ian Holm) tells prospective clients in Atom Egoyan's haunting film The Sweet Hereafter. Somebody must be to blame for the school bus accident that killed 14 children in a small Canadian town, he explains to the grieving parents whom he hopes will join his lawsuit. Fortunately, director Egoyan chooses a more complex path for his film, focusing on the capacity for survival instead of retribution...
Anger is the tactic that Stevens uses to appeal to the bereft parents. "Let me direct your rage," he asks the parents, without providing any concrete target. Even he is unsure who to blame: the town, the school board or the bus company. It only matters to him, and many of the survivors, that someone pay, even if he or she is not truly responsible...
...fact, administrators like Rudenstine and Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles blame Harvard's history for the lack of minority faculty, stating in many speeches and articles that their own commitment to the issue is strong...
...Wild and wacky Marv Blame the Victim, Part II: sportscaster Marv Albert pleaded guilty to biting a woman during sex, then told Barbara, Katie and Dave it was the woman's fault. Albert ignored the first law of celebrity: being famous allows you to do all the naughty things you ever wanted; it also makes it a lot more likely you'll get caught...