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...that's a paper considered friendly to the U.S.-led coalition. Pakistan's Urdu-language papers, Jang and Nawa-i-Waqt, have largely adopted a blame-the-victim approach to Sept. 11. "They regularly point out why some people are angry at America," says Riaz Ahmad, founder of the Pakistani American Congress. "They regularly remind everybody that if you solve the Israel-Palestine issue, those killings would stop...
When the tail fin of a seemingly fine aircraft rips away on a clear morning, as it did in the Nov. 12 crash of American Airlines Flight 587, you'd think blame might lie with how the plane was built. New evidence, however, suggests a problem may also have been in how it was flown. According to a blunt 1997 letter obtained by TIME, safety officers from Boeing and Airbus, the plane's builders, had warned American that its pilot training relied too much on the rudder to recover in turbulent situations, which can "lead to structural loads that exceed...
...officials decided that the situation was just too chaotic to assign blame, so they just punished everyone. All ten skaters on the ice were given two minute roughing penalties, and an additional intereference infraction was charged to Korbl for his initial...
...much of a cop-out as it may seem to blame the media, increasingly overt messages from popular culture have certainly made an impression on young people’s view of sex today. During my high school years, YM and Seventeen magazines were a vital source of information, and they often included special pullout sections revealing the essentials every girl had to know before, during and after the deed. Although these magazines were always careful to mention that virginity was an acceptable option, the constant emphasis on sex stood staunchly in contradiction to such claims. Virgins, after all, were...
...Politically, it's a bit of a gamble. Won't the voters savage any Congress that does nothing at a time like this? The blame for this particular stalemate can be laid clearly at the feet of the Democrats - the Republican-led House at least passed a bill, while Daschle made sure nothing at all got through the Democratic Senate. The recession is in full swing, unemployment keeps rising, consumer confidence keeps teetering on the edge of the abyss - shouldn't somebody in Washington be doing something to help...