CHARLES MICHENER, Cleveland, posted on nytimes.com I love le Carré's work, but I hold him accountable for having cost me so many hours of sleep.
Then there are the "Dreamers," undocumented American residents who came to the United States as children and who therefore cannot be held accountable for having arrived without papers.
The dismissals are the latest sign that investment banks, facing big losses after years of big profits, are moving quickly to hold senior executives accountable for having succumbed too readily to the credit and buyout boom.
"It doesn't make sense to me that, frankly, Emily's List didn't hold them accountable for having been elected on that platform but then not supporting that platform," she said.
"If this passes, and I expect it will, it will mark a time when we held not only our students but our athletic teams and our institutions accountable for having student athletes progress academically in a timely way.
Mark Caro, in his authoritative book "The Foie Gras Wars" — inspired by the foie ban briefly in place in his hometown, Chicago — says that, as early as the 11th century, a French rabbi wrote that Jews would be held accountable "for having made the beasts [geese] suffer while fattening them".
