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...lifelong Cambridge resident also said that his former partners, who are currently cooperating with the FBI, are using him as a "scapegoat" for their real estate losses...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Councillor Defends His Record, Insists He's Innocent | 10/16/1992 | See Source »

...School Dean of Students Sarah E. Wald served her last day on the job yesterday, amidst speculation that Dean Robert C. Clark is using her as the scapegoat of the faculty diversity controversy...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wald Leaves Law School; Called Scapegoat by Minority Groups | 10/16/1992 | See Source »

President Bush, quick to focus on such popular resentment while campaigning in the Pacific Northwest, has found it easy to scapegoat the owl for the region's economic woes. Speaking in Colville, Washington on Monday, Bush said "Not far from here is a timber town called Forks. Like Colville, Forks supported a mill, and the mill supported a community. Because of a lack of timber, the mill had to close. Today unemployment at Forks is at 20 percent," Bush said. "It's time to put people ahead of owls," he concluded...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Killing Fields | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

...campaign and Administration. That is what allows Clinton and Gore to dominate the television news and set the political agenda, at least for now. It is also the main reason why so many Republicans, unable to persuade Bush to aggressively address the problems of the economy, are seeking a scapegoat in Dan Quayle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quayle vs. Gore | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...seems kind of silly...It seems as it this squirt gun has been chosen to be the scapegoat for larger problems," says Miller, "It is just a squirt gun, after...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Super Soaker Squirt Weapon Spurs Boston Controversy | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

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