Word: scapegoat
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...what Tenet is seeking. On July 11 he will become the third longest-serving CIA director, and sources tell TIME he had been mulling retirement before the weapons controversy. The new assignment offers him a chance to go out either as a hero--or a scapegoat. "The spin is that somebody's got to be in charge so that it's being done in an organized fashion," says an intelligence official. "The more cynical view is that they have handed the whole bag of s___ to him." --By Timothy J. Burger and James Carney
...bears her name and fortune. (She owns 61% of the stock, worth $310 million.) In addition to criminal charges, she faces a civil case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), alleging insider trading. Stewart's lawyers say she "has done nothing wrong" and has become a celebrity scapegoat for more egregious, if less glamorous, corporate criminals. And her many fans agree, including some who say she's being targeted as an uppity woman executive who has made it in a preserve dominated by men. Prosecutors see it differently. "Martha Stewart is being prosecuted...
...consistent with national policy. Sun's father, meanwhile, received a $53,000 settlement?and a team of police escorts, he told Time, to prevent him from discussing the case with the media. Nicolas Becquelin, research director of the New York City-based Human Rights in China organization, observes, "A scapegoat had to be found for a problem that is much larger than this case. The trial was incredibly quick and typically opaque. It allowed the authorities involved to be seen as responsible without actually changing anything...
...school committee does the dumbest things on the face of the earth and then they need a scapegoat,” parent Jackie Carroll said at the time...
...that "this is as far as I go" with Cuba's revolution. The E.U. has also postponed negotiation of a badly needed economic aid package for Cuba. At the same time, Payá - who like most Cuban dissidents opposes the U.S. embargo because it gives Castro a convenient political scapegoat - has altered the thinking of anti-Castro forces in the U.S. Since many of them see in Payá the first real chance to grow democracy from within the country, even hard-line exile groups like Miami's Cuban American National Foundation are advising Bush not to tighten the embargo...