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...students were to move in this year and Fiji were to be later found at fault, the fraternity might be forced to close,leaving students without a place to live, he said...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Requires Frats to Have Adult Live-Ins | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

...until on the other side of the bridge the blue van suddenly cut in front of me causing me to slam on my brakes and horn. I sped to the right and away, faster than that blue van ever could go. I see the incident as my own fault, even though driving with one's windows open should be an inalienable right. The world just isn't a safe place, and it's best to be scared, to protect oneself and to stay in safe situations...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: POSTCARD FROM WESTCHESTER COUNTY | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

...insensitive, but if you?re a Secret Service agent, and America knows your name, you?d better have taken a bullet. Otherwise something?s rotten in the state of the Union. Oh, we don?t blame you, Larry Cockell -? the fault for the current ugliness lies with either Starr or Clinton, and most likely both. We like our presidential protectors tall, dark and inscrutable, preferably with mirrored sunglasses. With an earpiece and a little cord that disappears down past a starched collar. With nothing to say to us. Sure, we?ve giggled at you from time to time, but never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In His Potato?s Secret Service | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

...industry, these suits defy established law and basic fairness. Guns are legal to manufacture and safe when used properly. It isn't their fault, the manufacturers say, that criminals buy their products and use them to shoot people. "You don't sue General Motors when someone drives drunk and hurts someone," says Smith & Wesson lawyer Anne Kimball. The gun manufacturers say that going after them distracts from the real problems: crime and social breakdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns In The Courtroom | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...nurture to blame? Is America's gun culture at fault? Or did the kids kill because they were molested by perverts, beaten by parents, rejected by girlfriends, despised by classmates or revved up by "role-playing games, heavy-metal music, violent cartoons/TV [and] sugared cereal," as Kip himself suggested on the Internet profile he wrote well before the shooting, foreshadowing with eerie prescience the debate to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Arms and The Boy | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

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