Word: scapegoat
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...everyone saw al-Zaidi as a political scapegoat. Nibras Maamorie, a correspondent with Iraq's Sumaria television station, said al-Zaidi's actions were an embarrassment to the country and to his profession. "He's set a bad example for journalists in Iraq," she said. "I'm not a legal expert - I don't know if he should have been sentenced - but as a journalist, I reject his actions...
...approved a bill Thursday that encourages doctors to turn in illegal immigrants who they've treated. Put simply, bad times fuel xenophobia. "History is full of cases of scapegoating triggered by economic crisis," says Francesco Billari, a professor of demography at Milan's Bocconi University. "Immigrants make an easy scapegoat: if you can't fight China, you can fight the Chinese at home...
...wrongdoing Reagan perpetrated while he hid behind his coy grin and dashing good looks. From Iran-Contra to Reaganomics to introducing crack cocaine to the hood (alright, maybe he didn’t really do this, but damn if he doesn’t make a good scapegoat), there’s plenty of fodder for new age liberals to hate. I mean, the guy revolutionized conservatism, and did it with a smile. My guess is, “The Man Who Sold the World” is about all this. Either that or David Bowie. It could go either...
...confusing situation somebody made a mistake and then very quickly retracted that statement,” said Law School Professor and co-founder of StopBadware John G. Palfrey ’94. “It’s the completely wrong reading that Google was looking for a scapegoat...
...1920s to find ever more creative ways to sell securities and lend to the burgeoning middle class. Mitchell, who became president of the bank in 1921, built City into the first financial supermarket. When everything financial turned toxic in the early 1930s, he became the most prominent scapegoat for the disaster. He was the main target of the famous Pecora hearings in Congress, was arrested for--but not convicted of--tax evasion and resigned in disgrace. The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 put an end to the blending of banking and securities businesses that Mitchell had championed. City lived...