Word: faulting
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...Deval Patrick, the fresh-faced black governor of Massachusetts, who called the arrest "every black man's nightmare." There was Vernon Jordan, noting that the event "tells us that the election of Barack Obama did not automatically erase racism." There was former Congressman Harold Ford, moderate to a fault, passionately insisting that once Sergeant James Crowley realized Gates had not broken into his own home, the officer should have said, "I'm sorry you're upset, sir. We're going to leave." And then, of course, there was the President of the United States, asserting that the Cambridge, Mass., police...
...Africa's most populous country sits on a religious fault line. Its 150 million people are split almost evenly between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south. For many years, the northern Muslim élite have dominated Nigerian politics, using their positions to enrich themselves and their families. "We have seen this country degenerate from a promising state to a dysfunctional one. We have seen unmitigated corruption and insensitivity on the part of its rulers," says Mohammed Ndume, a federal MP from Borno state. "We are seeing a lack of opportunities and so much stress for its people...
...need an internal struggle as well; the external one more than compensates. It makes perfect sense, then, that the government would prevent young Arabs from learning (in schools, at least) to consider the state’s creation a “catastrophe.” And who would fault Israel for doing what it can to prevent a sense of disloyalty from unraveling the very fabric of its existence from the inside...
...Silverman's fault. For the first six months of his tenure, all the networks were hobbled by the writers' strike, meaning the winnowing process of creating and shooting pilots had to be dispensed with and the networks were forced to choose new shows on scripts alone. This year, the struggling economy hasn't helped matters. (See the worst business deals...
...Well, all of us look dull in comparison to Sarah Palin, so that's not really a fault of Sean Parnell's...Some people are weary of the drama." - Alaska Senate Majority Leader Johnny Ellis. (KTUU, July...