Word: culprit
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...Maya E. Frommer ’07. Despite the odds, Eliot House Superintendent Francisco Medeiros has unwavering faith in his students. “I don’t believe the students take anything from the mailrooms,” he says. He suspects address confusion is the true culprit. Since Eliot House is on Dunster Street, packages are sometimes accidentally delivered to Dunster House—in fact, one Eliot resident’s thousand-dollar wedding ring was once shipped to the wrong dormitory. But what’s a thesis-writing, movie-craving student...
Doctors, like most of us, are often led astray by stereotypes that are based on someone's appearance, emotional state or circumstances. Thus a homeless man's disorientation might be quickly attributed to alcoholism when the real culprit is diabetes...
...three goals after the break to make the margin 10-4 with 6:50 to go in the frame. After an 11-6 score after three, both teams scored twice in the fourth quarter to achieve the final score. Scholl attributed the Seawolves’ surge to the same culprit that has plagued the Crimson all year—shooting. “We felt pretty confident after halftime, but we hit a lot of pots in the second half,” he said. “That’s one of our big problems. We really need...
...confirmed that peanut butter is the culprit in a rash of salmonella cases nationwide, totaling 329 reported cases in 41 states. While the FDA has not attributed any deaths thus far to the peanut butter infestation, at least two wrongful death lawsuits are already in the works. On Thursday a University of Iowa lab announced the first finding of salmonella in an open jar of peanut butter. The jar had been provided by an infected patient. Experts say it's the first time in U.S. history that peanut butter has been linked to a salmonella outbreak...
...human voices, for others they're a nuisance - dirty, noisy and a plague that has prompted cities and institutions across the country to declare war on the black clouds that roost in trees throughout the southern U.S. So when the black birds turned up dead, suspicions about a possible culprit exposed divisions that run deep across the country between the pro- and anti-grackle camps...