Word: scapegoats
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...West Bank as part of a disengagement from the Palestinians. The reversal is a sign of a new reality: after the Lebanon fiasco, Olmert doesn't have enough popular support for any plan that would give back land without something in return. If Olmert decides to make a scapegoat of Defense Minister Amir Peretz, the Labor Party may leave the coalition government. To remain in power, Olmert would then have to bring a right-wing party into the government, but the right opposes any concession to the Palestinians. That's a dilemma for Olmert, who has promised the Bush Administration...
...head of the company whose screeners worked at two of the three airports targeted on Sept. 11 - Newark and Washington's Dulles - Argenbright quickly became a scapegoat in the aftermath of the terror attacks. On Oct. 12, 2001, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly announced that parent company "Argenbright Holdings continues to violate laws that protect the safety of Americans who travel by commercial airlines." Ashcroft based his comments on a 1999 guilty plea and agreement Argenbright had made with the federal government when a screener at a Pennsylvania airport was busted for drug possession, which led to evidence that...
...There is a lot of hypocrisy in all this", says Ech?varri. "It seems like the only problem here is that cycling is the scapegoat for a perfect [sports] world." But the Landis affair may redouble the call for reform, not just in cycling but in all of sports. "Let's focus on the young generations," says Echavarri. "Let's be tough, but educating. Punishing is easy, but let's analyze the roots of what's happening. Even though right now cycling doesn't have much moral power to demand anything, it's still worth...
...party strategists say this is not a smart tactic. "I don't think it's helpful to get into the sort of scare tactics of abusing subpoena power," said Dianne Farrell, who is running for a House seat in Southern Connecticut. "The American people are not looking for a scapegoat...
...trial nears an end and she awaits word on whether he will be sentenced to death, Moussaoui's mother talked with TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley about her son's path to Islamic extremism and what she insists is a show trial intended to make him the scapegoat for 9/11. Excerpts from the interview...