Word: culprit
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...them, the culprit will forever be the unknown Cornell defender whose helmet fractured the fifth metacarpal of Ryan Fitzpatrick’s throwing hand—and with it, the dream of an Ivy title...
...clay (which he hoped would be identified as a plastic explosive) and matches. Frustrated that his efforts were not detected, he finally stowed the items in the lavatories of two Southwest Airlines jets and on Sept. 15 sent federal authorities an email alerting them and identifying himself as the culprit. No one listened. It took a pilot's complaint about a toilet in the rear of a plane for workers to discover the items, which had sat undetected for five weeks...
...leaking of Plame's identity as a CIA operative was terrible. The culprit should be found and hanged. Her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, however, could easily have predicted the consequences of accusing the Administration of exaggerating the Iraqi threat, as Wilson did in his op-ed piece in the New York Times. Wilson had a responsibility to consider the Administration's probable response and to put aside his own agenda in order to protect his wife and the mother of his children. Wilson is every bit as despicable as the leaker. No man should risk the well-being...
...contrast to the 2001 and 2002 openers, Harvard was outshot Saturday (24-20). The main culprit was a second period in which the Crimson had two five-on-three penalty kills—one of which was successful—and mustered a mere three shots on goal...
...Crime Too Small North Koreans have received life sentences for crimes as simple as singing a South Korean pop song or spilling ink on a photo of Kim Jong Il. Often, up to three generations of a prisoner's family are sentenced along with the culprit, on the theory of guilt by association...