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...despite repeated attempts to quit. He now has lung cancer, which has spread to his brain, back and lymph nodes; doctors give him less than a year to live. Who?s responsible for this sad state of affairs? According to a Los Angeles jury, his impending death can be blamed directly on Philip Morris, the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes. The reason? Boeken says he believed the company's long-standing insistence that cigarettes are not addictive. And while juries had long been skeptical of individual claims against tobacco companies - why didn't they just quit? - they now seemed more inclined...
...while some lawyers have an unsatisfactory experience in their careers, Van Susteren said that they should not blame the field as a whole, but the particular job they went into. She said that any graduate of Harvard Law School should be smart enough to leave a job that they did not enjoy...
...have trouble trying to convince my friends they should care about a major land acquisition across the river. So far, public discussion of the land has been limited to easements and land cultivation, so I’m not sure I blame them. But the purchase of about 100 acres in Allston over the last several years is the single most significant move the University has made in decades, and every student and graduate of this University should care intensely about its future...
...Some SAS members also took offense to the "overtly political" nature of the HSI event, which featured speeches by Martin Peretz, a lecturer in Social Studies, as well as U.S. Representative Barney Frank '61, both of whom placed blame on the Palestinian population for the deaths of its citizens...
...White House troika...must take a major portion of the blame for the defection and must assume a major portion of the responsibility for getting Mr. Bush back to the center," wrote The New York Times editorial board on the day after Jefford's announcement. "Fundamentally, they have talked an excellent game in preaching unity, bipartisanship and inclusiveness but have handled Congress in a rough, even presumptuous manner...