Word: scapegoat
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Maybe it wasn't really so lonely at night in the woods at the edge of the Scapegoat Wilderness, where the trees sound like a crowd waiting for the curtain to rise. It is a place where a man who hates technology would have plenty of time to practice what the Unabomber preaches. He could listen to the forest rustle and hum, the larches and ponderosa pines hundreds of years old, the tamaracks and the lodgepoles that totter when the wind rubs up against the Continental Divide. What he didn't know was that for the past few weeks...
...great thing about ballot initiatives is they offer the citizenry no scapegoat other than itself. When the elephants have to leave the Cincinnati zoo ? famous for its endangered species ? angry residents might remember they just nixed a $52 million levy for a new elephant house. When sports fans in Pittsburgh bemoan the lack of facilities for the Steelers and the Pirates, it may spark the memory of their own votes against new stadiums for the teams...
PARIS: The blame game has begun. At stake are big-money lawsuits, possible prison terms, and the unenviable role of scapegoat for the wrath of a global media audience intent on identifying, castigating and punishing the villains responsible for the death of its princess...
...media does not distinguish between Asians and Asian-Americans," said Shieh. "Asian-Americans never have any political influence unless it's as a scapegoat...
...have threatened to sue for breach of promise if their daughter doesn't open on Broadway. Andrea McArdle, the original Annie, has sided with Joanna. "These are sick people acting desperately," says McArdle. "They expected the same magic we had in '77, and now they've made her a scapegoat...