Stretching out a divorce can be especially imprudent in New York, where by law, one partner must be assigned blame for the marriage's end.
With the exception of the Reverends Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, who immediately assigned blame for the attacks to homosexuals and abortionists, the recriminations were muted at first.
An investigation assigned blame for the accident to the crew of the, most notably to Hazelwood, who had been drinking before the spill.
Rwandan Hutu soldiers shot down the Hutu president's plane on the eve of the 1994 genocide, according to a government-commissioned inquiry that formally assigned blame for the crash that set off the slaughter of more than 500,000 people.
Apologies notwithstanding, Mattel executives assigned blame for the lead-paint fiasco by doing something Sethi had been unsuccessfully urging them to do for years: they identified the specific plants in China where the violations occurred.
LaPierre on Friday also assigned blame for mass shootings to music videos that "portray murder as a way of life" and to "blood-soaked films" such as "Natural Born Killers" and "American Psycho".
