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...responsible for the unprecedented scale of violence in the past century. In the economic booms, said Ferguson, it was often minorities—such as the Jews in Europe and the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire—who disproportionately benefited. Then, “in the crunch, the blame for economic downturn could be placed on the successful minority,” he said. In a time of Western decline—as in any time of imperial decline—Ferguson said, “the question is: Who is in charge now?” While violence...
...path—its first drive began with a multitude of running plays and ended in a touchdown—but miscues on both sides of the ball prevented any real dominance. At halftime a single score divided the two teams. One score. Against a 1-6 squad. Assigning blame is tough. The defense did everything it could to extend Lions drives, with personal fouls, facemasks, holding, pass interference, you name it. But don’t discount the offense. False starts and illegal shifts routinely saddled Harvard with third-and-long. With special teams fouls thrown in, the squad...
...says much of the blame for this violence rests with the Cambridge Housing Authority, which has cut back on both security and youth programs in response to a drop off in federal funding for public housing. Without after-school activities, Sullivan says “restless youth” have few things to do, and ultimately get into mischief...
Every great financial boom ends in tears. With markets, what goes up unreasonably must come crashing down, and when that happens, we look for people to blame...
...slump and credit crunch. On Oct.30, Stan O'Neal resigned his post as CEO of Merrill Lynch after reporting that his firm would suffer a $7.9billion hit to the value of its assets because of bad bets on mortgage-related securities. O'Neal personally took blame for Merrill's forceful push into complex instruments designed to distribute the risk of a surging subprime-mortgage market--the ones now imploding as home prices flatline and defaults spike...