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Once at home, she fell apart but could not confide in anyone, fearing that her parents, as military personnel, would blame themselves. "She was a basket case. She sat on the floor of her room all day, sobbing," says Fullilove's mother, who wants to remain unnamed so that she can work for change within the Air Force. She persuaded her daughter to report the rape four months afterward but that proved fruitless, even for an officer's daughter. Says her mother: "We went through hell for a couple of years...
Ankara had told U.S. diplomats it thought the votes were in hand. Privately, senior Turkish officials blame Washington for not pushing dissident Iraqis who held a meeting in northern Iraq last week to provide a seat for Iraq's Turkoman minority in a newly established body to coordinate with the U.S. after a war with Iraq. "We had been insisting that the Turkomans be a constitutive part of that," a senior Turkish official said. In the end, though, the newly elected pro-Islamic legislators may have been looking mainly to their home districts. "A lot of these guys are right...
...told TIME. "A lot of these [waivers] are legitimate - every launch is going to have them - but others are things you've learned to live with." The board is still weeks away from determining what caused Columbia to crash. But the overuse of the safety waivers hints that some blame may lie with NASA's approach to risk assessment. Many of the waivers, from snapped pins to broken foam, had been carried over from flight to flight during Columbia's 22 years of use. "Engineers are raising the same concerns they were years ago," says Sheila Widnall...
...tempting, of course, to blame the language. After all, maybe their predilection for clubbing was the natural result when everyone tipped off the international students that life at Harvard was often “a grind.” But evidence suggests that the love of grinding may be more sexual than intellectual. “Grinding is the best thing about America. You don’t get it in other countries,” Turnbull says, reflecting on the irony of what he sees as America’s strangely bi-polar sensibilities. “You can?...
...It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault.” It’s not your fault that your quest for cultural understanding has not brought you anywhere near Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma or Missouri. Maybe we should blame these states’ departments of tourism. It’s not your fault that you don’t know anything about the Midwest beyond all the cruel stereotypes...