Word: culprit
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...turns out, the culprit is Dimna (Kristin A. Jones ’08), who was apparently pushed over the edge by one lost ID card too many. Saddled into the plot is everything from an escape from a lair under Annenberg to a few mixed-up love stories to the recovery of Bob Dylan tickets, and, of course, a happy ending...
...this argument sounds familiar, it should: Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto expresses a similar view in “The Mystery of Capital,” which pinpoints a lack of formal property rights as a main culprit behind the developing world’s stagnation. Like his compatriot, Vargas Llosa heaps praise on the ingenuity of Latin America’s poorest, especially the shantytown residents who have organized to provide basic services to the disenfranchised. Still, he considers them incapable of generating the sort of structural change key to breaking the region’s cycle of misery...
Your article identifies industry as the culprit in hazardous-waste dumping. Companies have not always used the best judgment in dealing with their toxic garbage, but we should ask ourselves why all these unwanted chemicals exist. We, the consumers who purchase these products, are also responsible for the by-products. David A. Moskowitz Litchfield, Conn...
...door." The program collected users' passwords as they logged on. No matter how often legitimate users changed their sign-on codes, the hacker was able to gain unauthorized access to the hospital's records by summoning the intervening trapdoor and reading off the newly accumulated list of passwords. The culprit was later apprehended. He pleaded guilty and faced a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $500 fine...
...sample from the city's water system contained levels of cancer-causing plutonium up to 200 times as high as normal but still no more than .4% of federally established danger levels. Declared Koch: "The water is absolutely safe to drink." Law-enforcement authorities are still looking for a culprit. Shrugged the mayor: "We don't know if it was a hoax, sham or a deranged mind." CENTRAL AMERICA Weighing a Retaliatory Raid...