Word: blunderer
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Similarly, the Sox were unable to triumph over their eternal nemesis Yankee-counterparts last year because their manager simply blew it. Leaving Pedro in too long in Game 7 was hardly his only blunder of the playoffs. For example, with the Sox trailing by just two runs in the sixth inning of Game 6, Little appeared to wave the white flag on the season by inserting the indomitably terrible Todd Jones—despite having a well-rested and talented corps in the rest of the bullpen—into the game. Jones had submitted an embarrassing...
...Americans go to war in Iraq because of a massive failure by our intelligence agencies, or a giant blunder by the Bush Administration? In either case, we should be appalled. The war has cost the lives of hundreds of young men and women and tens of billions of dollars. Any sane and humane society should consider it criminal behavior. Daniel A. Welch Rochester Hills...
...there's no p.r. trick powerful enough to spin away a blunder (a drunken wedding in Las Vegas, say), try hiring photographer David LaChapelle to dress you up and transform you into someone else completely (Jean Harlow, say). To promote BRITNEY SPEARS' upcoming concert tour, which will air on Showtime, the cable channel commissioned a glamorous new portrait of the singer--very demure, very classy. Next hurdle: getting people to believe it's Britney...
...americans go to war in Iraq because of a massive failure by our intelligence agencies or a giant blunder by the Bush Administration? In either case, we should be appalled. The war has cost the lives of hundreds of young men and women. Any sane and humane society should consider it criminal behavior. DANIEL A. WELCH Rochester Hills, Mich...
MEDICAL SECRETS As pretrial hearings continue in the rape case against the NBA star, it was revealed that because of a hospital blunder, the medical records of the accuser were mistakenly sent to the defense. The judge ordered the copies destroyed...