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...didn?t. "This was something of a blunder," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "First of all, McCain forgot that there?s no such thing as a regional press. Whatever he tells the Chronicle, he tells New Hampshire, and South Carolina ?- and he can?t afford to be that fat a target for conservative Republicans." And that?s not the worst of it. This goof, says Carney, was particularly bad because it was McCain that made it. "McCain?s central appeal is that he doesn?t pander, doesn?t flip-flop, shoots straight and consequences be damned," he says...
...made blunder after blunder...he thought he could treat the U.S. Congress like he had treated the Georgia legislature," MacNeil says...
...made blunder after blunder...he thought he could treat the U.S. Congress like he had treated the Georgia legislature," MacNeil says...
...Animal Kingdom (reported cost: $800 million) but also launched the Disney Magic ($350 million), its first cruise ship in Florida. A second ship, the Disney Wonder, is on its way. Analysts see so little economic rationale for these expenditures that they've begun to label the ships "Tragic" and "Blunder." Disney's stock price has been taking on water. Yet the company still has enough land in central Florida to add three more parks. Indeed, there are rumors that a sports-themed park (Disney owns ESPN and several pro teams) is on the drawing board...
NEVER HAS AN ARCHITECTURAL BLUNDER BEEN SO BRUTAL. "EXCUSE ME, PARDON ME," IS NOT SOMETHING YOU WANT TO HEAR BEHIND YOUR BACK WHILE POINTING PERCY AT THE PORCELAIN. URINALS BELONG IN THEIR OWN SELF-CONTAINED SPACE, NOT IN THE CAUSEWAY TO THE TOILETS...