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...Kazakh media zeroed in on Aliyev, formerly the knb deputy chief, as the man behind the killing. Aliyev publicly denied all such charges and threatened legal action against the press. The Interior Ministry issued a statement exonerating him of complicity. Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov, the Interior Minister, declared that the real culprit was Yerzhan Utembayev, the Senate's chief of staff, who allegedly confessed to putting out a $60,000 contract on Sarsenbayev "for reasons of personal enmity." Human-rights campaigner Panfilov regards that version as an attempt to discredit Abykayev, who is Utem-bayev's boss. But late last week...
...playboy musician (Justin V. Rodriguez ’07), a sexy marine biologist (Peter A. Dodd ’06), and sultry genie Juana Rubme (David J. Andersson ’09), to the pot, and it is pretty hard to single out the culprit...
Beyond the issue of bad beginnings, Harvard’s defense has been the chief culprit during the losing streak. The Crimson allowed Penn and Brown to shoot well over 50 percent and Yale to shoot 49 percent in the last three games, raising the team’s field goal percentage defense to .450 for the season...
...study, universities are forced to compete for these candidates with major corporations offering lucrative contracts. Brown University economics professor Glenn C. Loury, the first black professor to be tenured at Harvard, said he doesn’t think universities are reluctant to let in African Americans but that the culprit is the lack of qualified candidates. “The constraint here is on the supply side,” he said. “The problem is that the universities are producing relatively few black American graduates who are both interested in economics and qualified to study...
...whole genre. The rap world is full of MCs claiming to suffer from “jacked” or “bitten” rhymes.The Sugarhill Gang’s breakthrough hip-hop hit “Rapper’s Delight” is a classic culprit; the song liberally incorporates lyrics from Grandmaster Caz’s—of old-school favorites the Cold Crush Brothers—rhyme book. Decades before Caz’s lament, Little Richard voiced a similar criticism of Elvis, claiming that the so-called “King...