Word: culprit
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...fourth straight year, Harvard failed to advance past the first round., The culprit this time around: a 3-2, overtime defeat that marked the end of seven Harvard careers—those of seniors Brendan Bernakevitch, Tom Cavanagh, Rob Flynn, Dov Grumet-Morris, Andrew Lederman, Ryan Lannon, and Noah Welch—and which marked, at the same time, the continuation of an ugly tournament streak...
...Yale-style House system is not the “one-size-fits-all” solution it is intended to be. Instead of holding up Harvard’s current House system as the culprit, the Curricular Review Committee and the administration should instead focus on fixing the actual problems and improving both the first-year advising system and first-year social life within the boundaries of the current system...
Viewing suspects individually rather than as a group makes it less likely that a witness will finger a suspect simply because he looks more like the culprit than anyone else in the line. To minimize the chance of such mistakes, police departments in several states, including Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin, are testing the sequential method. Most of those departments are also making their lineups "double blind": the officer in charge does not know who the alleged culprit is and thus cannot subconsciously influence the witness. That can pose a problem in small towns, where...
Thus, the script must be the culprit. Clare attempts to come off as a fable, a timeless tale of family ties in a changing world. Since the story is one already deeply entrenched inside us, screenwriters allow for a painfully predictable plot. Unfortunately, the assumption fails and the writing comes off as formulaic and superficial. Lines like “I don’t want you ruining your life the way I did,” spoken to Anne by her bitter mother Maisie (Charlotte Bradley), sound like they would be better placed in daytime television. And the film?...
...crime. Although their three-hour foray into forensics was a bit sugar-coated--the girls, ages 9 to 15, were given cocoa powder to dust for fingerprints and chocolate bars to study teeth imprints--there was also a heavy dose of science and math. The troops measured the "culprit's" footprints to extrapolate how tall he or she might be and used deductive reasoning to eliminate suspects from further investigation. The workshop, organized by IBM for the fifth annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, emphasized another skill crucial to the girls' future success in science and engineering: the troops...