Word: blame
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first Mission: Impossible. What happened? Well, you can start with the fact that Robert Towne, the man wrote Chinatown for God's sake, was apparently uninspired to do anything more with the screenplay than rip off Notorious and throw in a limp virus thriller. Then you can blame Tom Cruise, who, despite his rogue's haircut, is stuck in extra-bland mode as superagent Ethan Hunt (when the Cruise mask is ripped off in the opening sequence, I was praying Chow Yun-Fat and his charisma would be underneath). And how did a television show that always revolved around...
...Kronauer Space. Despite the Kronauer's myriad positive qualities, the very name draws the occasional disdainful look from those involved in Harvard theater, and a look of blank incomprehension from the general student population. Given the clear correlation between a theater's name and its prestige, can we blame Carr for offering up the choice reward of $1,000 to the person who suggests the best name for the new theater? After all, that paltry $1,000 could decide more about the theater's fate than the millions already invested...
Certainly, the group at greatest fault is Phi Gamma Delta, the fraternity Krueger was rushing at the time of his death. But MIT's "hands-off" attitude toward its fraternities and social clubs is also to blame. Universities should be willing to subject these groups to greater scrutiny, particularly when they are suspected of questionable or dangerous practices. Indeed, Krueger is actually the second student this decade to die at a Phi Gamma Delta party: In 1993, over-intoxication caused Jeff Knoll to fall three stories to his death at a party thrown by the fraternity's University of Nebraska...
Less than 10 percent of registered voters went to the polls in Massachusetts yesterday to vote in the state primaries, a record low. Who can blame them though when 93 of 160 state representatives and 21 of 40 state senators were running unopposed? The so-called election--do you still call it an election when there's only one name on the ballot?--wasted tens of thousands of dollars per district, money which paid for polling booths, ballot counting and bureaucracy...
...True, the guilty were only a dozen or so members of the storied 82nd Airborne Division, but the blame for the tawdry details seeps far higher up their chain of command. Their woes didn't come after a year of boring peacekeeping duties in southeastern Kosovo, but rather began shortly after the 3rd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Regiment arrived in the Balkans last September. Once deployed to the town of Vitina, the soldiers morphed, figuratively if not literally, into cops, poised delicately between the minority Serb population and Kosovar Albanians eager for revenge against the horrors wrought upon...