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...school district has]been negligent. They love to blame the families," she added...
...Palestinians what they want. Many Palestinians believe their fortunes will improve only when Arafat's domination of their affairs ends. "Democracy is needed," says Haider Abdel Shafi, who headed the Palestinian team at the Madrid Peace Conference. "Arafat will never admit that he made a mistake. He will simply blame Israeli aggression...
...Navy headquarters, senior officers were flabbergasted by the disaster and privately were quick to blame Waddle. Although 16 civilians were aboard, they did little more than "pretend to drive" the submarine during the rapid ascent drill, Navy officers said. Waddle and his crew were still responsible for scouring the surface with their sonar and periscope before launching the "emergency main ballast blow." The choppy waters and the ship's white color may have made detecting the trawler difficult. But Navy officers said that if, as the trawler's crew said, their vessel was steaming at 11 knots, it should have...
...Blame it on Furby, the furry noisemaker that came out two years ago and sold more than 40 million units. Or Aibo, the $1,500 robot dog that generated 40,000 advance orders in just four weeks last fall. Clearly, robots have profound consumer appeal. "The whole concept of a machine being alive is enthralling," says home-robot inventor Henry Thorne of Probotics, based in Pittsburgh, Pa. "It captures you. It thrills you deep inside." Factor in rapidly falling prices for the cameras, motors, sensors and computer chips, and you've got a trend begging to bust loose...
...those moments when the general run of things is so toddling--Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys--that skinny white boys who talk a little tough, meaning Eminem, get to seem like a big deal. So if you happen to be a parent in, say, your 40s or 50s, nobody would blame you if you just turned away from pop music altogether. And if you happen to be a teenager, of course, you might not mind if they did. But the funny thing is, at the same time that the hard edge of pop gets harder and the soft edge gets softer...