Word: culprit
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...which hip curios are in vogue? Poor Mary has already got some preopening scolding. Despite its two-year, nearly sold-out run in London (and an advance sale of more than $20 million in the U.S.), some have deemed the show too dark for delicate American kids. The chief culprit: a new number called Temper, Temper, in which toys in the children's bedroom come to life. The fears are silly; Pinocchio was scarier. But the concerns are rather sweet--as if the critics were inventing some bad behavior for their goody-goody friend to make sure she gets accepted...
...titled "TV Really Might Cause Autism." The piece cited an as yet unpublished study from Cornell University, although not from its medical school. Economist Michael Waldman, of Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, got to thinking that TV watching--already vaguely associated with ADHD--just might be the culprit that tips vulnerable toddlers into autism. That there was no medical research to support the idea didn't faze him. Nor was he deterred by the fact that there are no reliable large-scale data on the viewing habits of kids ages 1 to 3--the period when symptoms...
...point here is not to find a new culprit to blame for the start of the conflict, but rather to admonish the dishonest proposition in the U.S. media that Israel justifiably responded to an unprovoked act of aggression from Hamas. That simply was not the case. And by presenting a fraudulent timeline of events, each media outlet holds responsibility for fundamentally altering how the conflict was perceived...
...Hastert and his forces have been trumpeting their charges against the Democrats, a whisper campaign has been launched in Washington to blame an internal culprit: a "velvet mafia" at the upper levels of G.O.P. leadership on Capitol Hill. Foley, that line of argument went, had been protected by gay staff members like Fordham, Trandahl and others whose names were being widely circulated. Says a top aide: "It looks like they may have tried to handle this among themselves because they were similarly situated...
...food as the cause. Michael P. Berry, director of dining services at the time, spoke to The Crimson three days after the crisis began. “There is no evidence that this was a food-borne illness,” he said Laboratory work eventually revealed the culprit to be the Norwalk virus, a gastrointestinal virus transmitted to students through contaminated salad bar food. HUDS removed eggs and pasta from the bar because of elevated bacteria levels, although those levels were not high enough to have caused the crisis, according to a Crimson report. Dartmouth College suffered a similar...