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• Worn-Out Excuse Given to Explain Byu Success

I like Rocky Long. I understand the new San Diego State football coach and agree with him most of the time. But when he repeats the popular refrain about BYU having a huge advantage with its older players, it rings as a worn-out excuse. Maturity is an advantage, no question. But it is also a dangerous alibi.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• February 10, 2011

• Culture as justification, not excuse.

ABSTRACT The wide discussion of cultural defenses over the last twenty years has produced very little actual change in the criminal law. This Articl...

• American Criminal Law Review
• Vol. 43 Nbr. 4, September 2006

• The insanity excuse and retrograde thinking.

THOSE OF US WHO have been on the front lines of the more than half-century fight relating to the issue of whether alleged mental illness should be an ...

• USA Today Magazine
• Vol. 139 Nbr. 2790, March 2011

• Excuse Me, But...

Last but not least, out on the "left" coast in San Francisco, a U.S. District Court judge rejected the [George W. Bush] administration's increasingly pathetic-sounding arguments that the effects of "global warming" and "climate change" are "too remote and speculative" to be taken seriously. Especially, argued the Bush administration lawyers, when it involves billions of dollars invested in overseas, greenhouse-gas-spewing energy plants. It means," said Vermont's lone congressman and former president of the Vermont Senate, "we're going to have a fighting chance to get the Environmental Protection Agency to protect the environment and our health." The United States Supreme Court, noted Pedro with a touch of sarcasm, "came to the stunning conclusion that carbon emissions are actually poll...

• Seven Days
• August 18, 2009

• No Excuse

Failing to rise above the anodyne phraseology of the Vatican-speak of this period, it also bore traces of anti-Judaism, and did not defend Jews by name, speaking rather of "some of our fellow citizens" who are victims of a "series of measures that are against the laws of God." Margit Slachta, who condemned murders of Jews by Hungarian forces in the Ukraine in 1941, saying that they were done "in the name of Christianity, but against the spirit of Christianity.

• Commonweal
• August 19, 2009

• Police: Save the Excuse; Weve Heard It All

Sitting on the side of the road as blue and red lights flash in your rearview mirrors probably isnt when youre at your most clearheaded. So heres a piece of advice: The excuse you hatched to explain away speeding or your role in a fender-bender has almost surely been heard before and its unlikely to get you out of trouble.

• The Columbian
• July 02, 2011

• The Excuse Game

As soon as I read his statement, I thought, "Uh Oh, here we go." Now that we have a Black President all bets are off, and all is right with the world; we have reached our highest pinnacle. "Every child," as [James Clyburn] said, which obviously includes every Black child, can no longer be excused for not achieving. Black children no longer have the excuse of being "steered" to low level education programs because they come from a "poor" neighborhood; they cannot offer the excuse of being targeted as low performers or "hyperactive," thus, requiring them to be put on drugs to keep them calm. Black children can no longer rely on the excuse of not having enough to eat in the morning, or having to sleep in a cold house because the heat was turned off, or not having the adult examples they ne...

• Call & Post; Cincinnati, Ohio
• September 02, 2009

• Hard Times Not an Excuse for Dividing Families

The fact is that over the last 30 years, corporations have demanded more from but paid less to their workers, all while their profits continue to rise. As we've seen jobs shifted overseas and once-mighty companies downsized, we have also witnessed the top 1 percent increase their share of the nation's wealth to 40 percent. The poUcies that have artificiaUy enabled this shift in wealth, as weU as the unfunded Bush-era tax cuts, are among the key reasons that our economy nearly coUapsed three years ago - that and the Enron-like accounting that allowed our immoral war in Iraq to remain practicaUy invisible in our budget estimates only until recently are why record surpluses have turned into triUion dollar deficits in less than 10 years. [...] the labor movement not only helped create this ...

• New York Amsterdam News
• March 28, 2011

• The Excuse Game

As soon as I read his statement, I thought, "Uh Oh, here we go." Now that we have a Black President all bets are off, and all is right with the world; we have reached our highest pinnacle. "Every child," as [James Clyburn] said, which obviously includes every Black child, can no longer be excused for not achieving. Black children no longer have the excuse of being "steered" to low level education programs because they come from a "poor" neighborhood; they cannot offer the excuse of being targeted as low performers or "hyperactive," thus, requiring them to be put on drugs to keep them calm. Black children can no longer rely on the excuse of not having enough to eat in the morning, or having to sleep in a cold house because the heat was turned off, or not having the adult examples they ne...

• Call & Post; Columbus, Ohio
• September 02, 2009

• Any Excuse to Be in the Kitchen

By Judy Cowling Correspondent

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• October 12, 2011