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...wasn't the Superglue that held his boot together after a nasty tumble on the ski jump. It wasn't the bloody face that resulted from that fall, nor the altitude, nor the wax on his cross country skis. Todd Lodwick, 25, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., doesn't blame anything or anyone for his seventh-place finish in Sunday's Nordic combined event. Actually, he's quite happy with...
...believed to be hiding in the mountains outside Uruzgan. While it is possible that U.S. troops simply went to the wrong place in search of those leaders, locals suspect that American commanders were duped by warlords--including, perhaps, Younis, who survived the U.S. attack--trying to eliminate rivals. "I blame Afghans," says Ahmed Wali Karzai, the interim leader's brother. "It was an Afghan mistake...
...master Kenneth Feinberg, whom the government has entrusted with dispersing its money to those most affected by the Sept. 11 tragedy. His first job is to persuade them to join the federal Victim Compensation Fund, the country's largest experiment in paying mass victims and their families without placing blame. The effort is being closely watched for the precedents it will...
...that city fathers blame the violence of the games themselves. "We had gangs long before we had cybercafes," says three-term mayor Bruce Broadwater, 60. But Garden Grove officials do admit to being blindsided by the speed at which the establishments spread - this time last year, there were only three of them. "We should have treated them like arcades," says city manager George Tindall - meaning stricter licenses and a waiting period. "The word 'Internet' confused us. It brought up all these First Amendment issues...
...blame? Everybody else. Mintz and McMahon nudged the cloud upward toward Skilling (and Lay, and Buy and Causey and Kopper and Fastow). Robert Jaedicke and Herbert Winokur, two Enron board members trying to explain why they missed the whole thing, did likewise, throwing in Arthur Andersen and law firm Vinson & Elkins. Said Winokur: "It appears outside experts...failed us." Officials at both Arthur Andersen and Enron, added Jaedicke, "did not fulfill their duty...