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...grudge against the U.S., outside terrorists from around the globe, or a combination of the two. The bombings could be the work of an enemy state, an organized fringe group or fanatic individuals. Mindful that the first blame in the Oklahoma City bombing was pointed at Muslims though the culprit turned out to be a disgruntled American militiaman, officials caution that it is way too early to speculate on the guilty...
...book or a software program impersonate a lawyer? You might not think so, but a panel supervised by the Texas supreme court is hauling in the most prominent U.S. publisher of self-help legal aids to determine if its products are doing just that. The possible culprit, Nolo Press, is a cheeky Berkeley, Calif., publisher whose logo depicts lawyers as briefcase-toting sharks with neckties. But Nolo's real crime may be putting the law into the hands of laypeople...
...protein. And here's where the ADC starts twisting the facts to reach wild conclusions. Allergies are frequently triggered by proteins (true); asthma is an allergic condition (true); it's been increasing draatically (true); doctors don't know the cause (true); therefore, the protein in milk must be the culprit...
History and literature is not the only culprit. Other concentrations are just as guilty of loading on classes. Too many students at this College don't have time to pursue other academic interests...
...later sermon Gomes names fear as the culprit: "Everybody is fearful, terrified of some public or private demon...It is fear not only holds us together, but keeps us from being whole." On the threshold of a new millennium, Gomes worries that this sense of fear may be particularly potent. People are anxious that "There is a limitation to improvement. Our circumstances, instead of getting better, and better, may be getting worse and worse." But with the optimism that is the preacher's hallmark, Gomes offers his congregation an inoculation: emphasis that "you are not stuck in materialistic world...