Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culprit didn't just take one foosball--five foosballs were removed from the Quincy House table by a mysterious kleptomaniac. You might ask, "What can you do with a foosball except play foosball?" Perhaps someone with a lot of time to waste could tell you. The value of the balls is only about $15, so this theft constitutes the most petty of larcenies...
...outrage. There are no bad people to blame for the old woman's plight: a self-involved son, say, or a callous bureaucrat. Even the garmentmaker who fires her is a decent man under cruel commercial pressures. Nor does Chayefsky rail against "the system." If there's any culprit, it is simply -- pardon the expression -- the human condition...
...said was the suicide attacker who blew up 22 others on a crowded bus; on the tape, Salah Abdel-Rahim Hassan Assawi says he planned the bombing because his brother was killed in the Palestinian intifadeh. At least one witness, however, swore he wasn't the culprit...
Whatever the mixture of cold-blooded calculation and religious fanaticism that lay behind the deaths, all signs of both method and madness pointed to Jouret as the prime culprit. Born in Kitwit in the Belgian Congo, now Zaire, he went to Brussels in the 1970s for medical training, then moved around the world studying acupuncture and homeopathy, a system of treatment based on minimum doses of medication. Along the way he found himself drawn to the spiritual arcana of the Knights Templar, a mystical brotherhood banned in France in the 14th century. Eventually he joined a French-based group called...
Much work remains before people can benefit from these findings. Researchers have not yet identified the infectious culprit, nor do they know whether the virus is responsible for all Type I diabetes or just for a few unusual cases. But if the Pittsburgh researchers are right, and a vaccine can be developed, the disease could go the way of polio and other childhood scourges conquered by medicine...