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...beef sales, which would leave governments to prop up national markets on their own. That means a higher bill for grumpy, tofu-eating taxpayers. Which is why those European politicians who ignored warnings about the threat of bse and then lied about it are frenetically trying to shift blame for the crisis. French Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany said last month that Britain should be "morally condemned" for spreading the disease on the Continent. The open market has slammed shut: Germany, France and Italy have responded to doubts about the safety of their homegrown beef by declaring war on everyone else...
Paige concedes that the dropout rate in Houston is "undesirable" but doesn't blame it on testing. "Most of it had nothing to do with the school-based factors," he says. "We were improving those rapidly." Paige instead faults societal factors such as teen pregnancy and the lure of employment, even for dropouts, in a strong local economy...
Then came the NFL. Jordan and the Bulls. ESPN (which I blame the most). It was hitting me so fast, and I felt so free every time I changed the channel and moved from the Wide World of Sports to the Olympics to the Lipton Championships (an old tennis tournament...
Though Finneran has assaulted any semblance of true democracy in the House in a wide variety of ways, from micromanaging committee actions to single-handedly negotiating the details of the budget with Birmingham last year, he does not alone bear the blame for this shameless power grab. The representatives who find it convenient to have him as a scapegoat also deserve to be censured for destroying any semblance of democracy in order to protect themselves...
...Wednesday's Washington Post, staff writer John Harris reports on a heated meeting between Al Gore and Bill Clinton, just days after Gore conceded the presidential election to George W. Bush. With the loss still fresh in both men's minds, accusations and blame are reported to have flowed freely. TIME national political correspondent Karen Tumulty followed the Gore campaign from its inception to the bitter end. Here, she offers her thoughts on the meeting, the participants, and the future of the Democratic party...