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...blame a mom for getting frazzled? A night that is designed to unleash a kind of controlled anarchy comes this year at a time of national neurosis. Is it possible to reconcile the two? At Halloween, says Jack Santino, a professor of popular culture at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, "we acknowledge the random evil in the world and give it a central place. And it's O.K., because it is playful. It is a safe time to deal with the unsafe." But, Santino says, the eruptions of Sept. 11 make it hard to feel playful...
NATURAL-BORN BLAME TAKERS...
...their roots in its research labs and are based on technologies that are often superior to those developed in the U.S. But such firms struggle because their founders believe that good products simply sell themselves. "The French are great engineers but terrible at marketing," says Liautaud. He puts the blame partly on the university system, which he says churns out technologists who lack business training and respect for marketing...
Representative Paul Demakis—whose precinct gained a large chunk of Cambridge under the new redistricting—was the only member of the Cambridge delegation who voted in favor of the redistricting. Demakis also implied that Barrios was to blame for the drastic redistricting...
...coincide with Ramadan, and famine relief groups such as Christian Aid, Oxfam and others working in Afghanistan have called for a pause in U.S. bombing in order to be able to deliver food to millions of vulnerable Afghanis before the snows make roads impassable. The U.S. and Britain have blamed the Taliban for impeding food distribution and Admiral Stufflebeem even warned Wednesday that the Taliban was planning to poison U.S. food aid packages and blame any resultant deaths on the donors. But as in the debate over Iraq sanctions, claims that the regime on the ground is the real author...