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...corporate clients with plans to dump dangerous toxins. It is tempting to think the new rule is just an attempt by lawyers to protect themselves legally, but in fact they may be better off under the old rule: if you are prohibited from blowing the whistle, no one can blame you if you don't. What the new rules offer lawyers is a moral opportunity to sound the alarm about clients bent on doing harm--and of course, an opportunity for good publicity...
...last fall to compete in the Sydney Olympics—she will have the freedom to build experience in the major international meets. When she placed fifth at the IAAF Indoor World Championships at Lisbon in March at a peak height of 1.93 meters, she placed some of the blame on her failure to adapt to an unexpected ramp that interfered with her approach. At Edmonton, the IAAF reported that a strong headwind, which picked up as the bar was raised to 1.94 meters, made the competition difficult for inexperienced jumpers...
...Spanish music I heard, interspersed among the American, was pretty awful. And you can only blame so much of it on us. Americans may have liked Billy Ray Cyrus’s “Achy Breaky Heart” back when I was in elementary school, but I don’t think that, after so many years, you can blame us for its current popularity in Spain. At dance clubs in Barcelona you can dance to a new version: “No rompas mi corazón, mi pobre coraz?...
...courts' bias against the plaintiffs in rape cases, it seems evident that if the defendant were a Japanese man, he may never have been indicted. But deep, negative stereotypes exist about American military men, too. Locals insist that soldiers act here in ways they never would at home. They blame the effects of battle training, coupled with upbringing in rough areas and poor education. And though it's left unsaid, it's hard to believe they think race plays no role. "When a suspect is black and from the military, people here assume he must be guilty," says lawyer Eddie...
...founder of the Rape Emergency Intervention Counseling Center in Okinawa and an Okinawan assemblywoman. Makiko Tanaka, Japan's female Foreign Minister, is reported to have said to colleagues there must have been "something wrong with the girl, going out so late at night." Old-fashioned attitudes impose shame and blame on the victim; studies say this limits the number of rapes reported to the police to between...