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A stark reason to work with Russia In "The drive to blame Russia" (Views, Aug. 22), Thomas Graham cites the costs to the breakdown in the U.S.-Russia relationship.
Garzón, who suffered a minor head injury in the crash, left hospital as state-run rail companies launched an all-out drive to blame him for the accident and his colleagues expressed disbelief that he could have been responsible.
Still, the drive to blame something other than chance is a strong one, and the issue arose again last week when a long-awaited study of breast cancer on Long Island did not find evidence that certain pesticides, exhaust fumes, or cigarette smoke were linked to cancer.
The stories we tell ourselves can be harmless and helpful, or they can become something else, when a drive to explain becomes a drive to blame, when we turn to folk-devils to explain the pathetic state of the society we live in.
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A deeper, unacknowledged psychological reason also drives Americans to blame Russia.
The question of who is to blame drives all four characters into spiralling accusations and defences; eventually they are all to blame, and no one is.
But if the fire proved anything, it was that many women were kingdomless, out of the home and working (one might say living, since many worked all day, seven days a week) in a man's domain — that the verdict in the Shirtwaist trial was that there was no one to blame drove this point home.
In contrast, patients tended to see health workers driven by self-interest and to blame them for making errors, which typically involved inappropriate services and excessive tests.
The next time you get lost on a drive through unfamiliar terrain, you may be able to blame Bob Dylan.
No, it was not the promenaders, the careless, the carefree, who were to blame, but those alone who drove the war on with their words.
"I hate to blame the media, but that was driven by everybody else and not by us," King said.
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