Word: scapegoat
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...easily becomes a scapegoat. The second word in its title is, after all, "nations." The member states, after all, still have the bulk of the power, and thus the responsibility, for the U.N.'s conduct. The organization doesn't send out one peacekeeper without the consent of the Security Council...
...meeting this August, the PBHA board charged Nero with driving a PBHA van while uninsured, authorizing an uncertified driver to transport PBHA campers, and changing the association's policy on insurance deductibles without authorization. Nero, meanwhile, maintains that she was merely a scapegoat for countless vehicular indiscretions on the part of other PBHA drivers...
...other members said Nero was being made the scapegoat for the association's many accidents this summer. Ilyana G. Tavera '96, a volunteer at Nero's program who hopes to succeed Nero as director next summer, called the proceedings against Nero a "witch hunt...
Nero, who has said previously that she is being made a scapegoat in the affair, said last night's meeting degenerated into personal attacks between board members who accused each other of vehicles violations and other improprieties...
...single me out?" Nero asked in an interview Wednesday. "I think one of the reasons that I'm being singled out is that we need a scapegoat...