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Current and recent committee members generally respond to such accusations in terms of the specific case and find no evidence of a system at fault. As they put it, they weren't there...
...husband seriously ill in the hospital. The fire severely damaged her home, destroying, along with much else, a new hospital bed bought to appease her acute arthritis. Like many of the victims, she declined to blame officials. "In a way, they did the best they could. I don't fault them. I just feel sorry for people like myself. There's nothing else to do but pray...
...games." Thomas Harris added Psychiatrist Alfred Adler's concept of a universal "inferiority feeling." In Harris' view, many people go through life thinking of themselves as helpless children overwhelmed by adults. This stance, which he calls "I'm not OK -- You're OK," is often no one's fault. Even good parents who warn their children not to run into a busy street can build a feeling of worthlessness in their offspring. Children often lack the capacity to see the wisdom of a parental order. The child knows only that he or she is in the wrong; this develops into...
...cedi, Ghana's hyperinflated currency. Last year the country's gross national product rose for the first time in a decade. Says John Ijichi, Ghana's loan officer at the World Bank in Washington: "What is refreshing in Ghana is that people openly admit that the situation is their fault...
...comparison exists. Protest in favor of fraternities at Amherst and Colby support self-interest, nor "national issues." And the suicidal flavor of the Brown students' symbolic statement is their campaign for cyanide pills makes it is position morally repugnant to me, and Mr. Rosenthal has no right to fault me the rest of the Harvard community for not solving similar campaign here...