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...easy. The real problems involved jinns, the spirits that many Moroccans accept as hazards of daily life. Shah's new home - a sprawling, decrepit, Arabian Nights complex in Casablanca once owned by a real caliph - was crawling with them. His ever-expanding workforce was terrified by the spectral invaders, blaming them for every accident, including those dead animals. "They were a back door by which all blame could be neatly sidestepped," writes Shah of the jinns. "Any blunder - from chopping down the wrong tree to setting fire to the lawn mower - could be instantly brushed aside." So Shah learned...
That's why there are plenty who argue that the blame--and the answer--must lie squarely with fat people themselves. When Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat, attacked junk food in schools two years ago, then Democratic Senator Zell Miller, whose home state of Georgia is the location of Coca-Cola headquarters, scoffed, "Our kids are not obese because of what they are eating in our lunchrooms at school. They are obese, frankly, because they sit around on their duffs watching MTV and playing video games, and to do something about that requires the role of the parents...
...blame? The rain, apparently. The morning of the October 2005 testing was so wet that the answer sheets expanded, which meant they misaligned with the scoring scanners. Because the whole process is mechanized, nobody noticed until late December, when two students asked to have their tests rescored by hand (for a fee), which took about a month. Those misscored tests led to the rechecking of the entire year's tests--which was not finished until early March...
ALBANY, N.Y.—If a team scores eight goals once, maybe the opposing defense is to blame. But when the same team hits double-digits in the following game, something’s going right on offense. The No. 12 Harvard men’s hockey shocked top-seeded Dartmouth in the semifinal of the ECAC tournament, routing the No. 15 Big Green 10-1 on Friday evening at Pepsi Arena. Crimson netminder John Daigneau delivered a solid effort, posting 34 saves and allowing only a lone goal in just over 50 minutes of play...
...late- (and late-late-) night hours that make IHOP so famous. Instead, the syrup palace will be forced to close at 2 a.m. along with its nearby neighbors Felipe’s, b. good, and Pinocchio’s. For this, the Harvard Square Defense Fund is largely to blame. The group, which in the past has successfully convinced the CLC that late-night food always means late-night noise, should realize that 4 a.m. closing times will not actually lead to more noise near Cambridge homes. After all, there are almost no private residences between most Harvard Square restaurants...