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...Blame it in part on jitters, part on inexperience, but for Harvard his poor decision-making must bear the brunt of the blame for the 27-25 loss to Holy Cross...
Much of the blame for the impotent offense has to lie with Wahlberg. A quarterback who enjoyed success playing in Florida at the high school level against some very good players, he looked confused on Saturday and struggled to make his reads downfield. He threw all three Crimson interceptions and completed only 4-of-16 passes...
Which isn't to blame doctors alone. Americans as a whole have a hard time discussing dying--even those who have planned for it. According to the TIME/CNN poll, 55% of those over 65 now have an "advance directive," a legal document that lays out what sort of care they want before death. This number has never been higher. But only 6% of those worked with a doctor to write the document; other polls have shown that very few people even tell their doctors they have advance directives. In addition, a study found that although many Americans legally designate someone...
...such as it is. In "Memories of West Street and Lepke," Robert Lowell lamented, "I was so out of things," to indicate he was praising the condition. Unhappily, one of the things he was out of was his mind. In a movie, Oscar Levant told Joan Crawford, "Don't blame me, lady. I didn't make the world. I barely live on it." Somerset Maugham dignified the dreaming-out-the-window business. "A state of reverie," he said, "does not avoid reality; it accedes to reality." I like that--accedes to reality...
...agrees the fires are not normal, not part of the harmonious burn-and-regenerate cycle of nature in business for itself. Brittlely dry heat and lightning without moisture, abetted sometimes by man-made sparks, started the fires. Could past human errors, activating a law of unintended consequences, be to blame for spreading them? And if so, which errors...