Word: scapegoats
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have had it with people blaming the FBI for Sept. 11! Does anybody really believe it was the fault of the bureau, or is it just the scapegoat? To say the agents were caught with their pants down makes a great story, but can we expect the FBI to be absolutely flawless? Can we expect agents to weed through the thousands of terrorist threats made against the U.S., omnipotently knowing which ones to take seriously? I think the FBI does an exceptional job, considering the hand it is dealt every day. Who knows how many times its agents have saved...
...female cop seems constantly plagued by PMS when compared to her more relaxed colleagues and superiors. While she sticks firmly to her gut feeling that the boys are guilty, the rest of the police force ignores her and follows the boys’ lead to a scapegoat victim...
...zero-tolerance policies will be fairly administered. Jan Malicki, ordained in Poland, came to North Miami in the late '80s as an associate pastor. In 1998 two women accused him of sexual abuse while one of them was a minor. Malicki says the diocese made him a scapegoat, rushing to announce his imminent arrest, and then claimed the church bore no responsibility under First Amendment protections. Even though county investigators concluded two years ago that they had no basis to charge him, Malicki is still on a leave of absence. "The archdiocese has left this priest twisting in the wind...
...wanted to ask you about Scapegoat, which was published a year and a half ago. What’s your take on the worsening situation in the Middle East...
...just breaks my heart. Nobody’s going to stop what’s happening in the Middle East until they can deal with the situation of women in both countries. What I said in Scapegoat was that in every country, women are the scapegoats of that country. I think that that’s true in Israel, and I think that that’s true in the area that the Palestinian Authority has control over. I think when we’re talking about the kind of violence that we’ve seen in the Middle...