Both candidates deserve equal blame for not addressing with any specificity California's most urgent problem.

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Ironically, though, there may be little evidence that market "speculators" deserve significant blame for Greece's funding problems.

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At one level, Mr Papandreou does not deserve blame even for seeking a mandate on the summit's main achievement (though he must now be ruing his decision).

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And those consumers who fail to follow through on the terms of the rebate deserve some of the blame for their behavior.

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This suggests that many second-act chief executives deserve some of the blame for the problems they have to fix, if only because of inept succession planning.

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Mr. AAMER ANWAR (Human Rights Attorney): Ultimately it's the terrorist who causes terrorism, and they deserve and should get all the blame for what they do.

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Modern education systems deserve much of the blame, both for fostering the belief that education ends when a person leaves school and for its emphasis on being right rather than on how to learn from mistakes.

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Because in the end, history will blame both sides -- for looking small when most of the country thinks our problems deserve solutions that are really big.

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