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McDonough has reportedly accepted a job to announce New York Mets games this season, possibly replacing Gary Thorne in the press box. If the Red Sox do not make an eleventh-hour move to save McDonough, it will be just one more blunder in a franchise unfortunately known for errors...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Offseason Blunders Start In Sox's Booth | 12/10/2002 | See Source »

...another blunder, the campaign produced posters bearing the names of both candidates. When the council tallies the cost of the campaign, these posters will count against both Darst and Simon’s budgets, effectively charging the campaign twice for each poster...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan and Nathaniel A. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Entrepreneur Teams With Council Veteran, Pledges Efficiency and Reform | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...pass, which would have been either defender’s second interception of the day, grazed off of Raftery’s fingers. The Tigers took advantage of the blunder to drive down the field and convert on a 30-yard field goal to cut the lead to two touchdowns...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Promised Lande: Defense Had Trick Up Its Sleeve | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...devastating indictment of the way Sabena was run. It's the tale of a chronically undercapitalized and uncompetitive company driven to ruin by a flawed expansion policy and an ill-fated alliance with Swissair. And throughout, a passive and heavily politicized board of directors signed off on one strategic blunder after another. Langendries says he doesn't want to pre-empt the commission's official findings, which are due by the end of the year, but one conclusion is indisputable. "There were bizarre goings-on everywhere at Sabena," he says, "and not just with the Airbus." Bizarre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Days of Sabena | 10/20/2002 | See Source »

Afghan officials in Kunduz interviewed by Time say the U.S. committed another major blunder in late November, when American commanders, according to these sources, agreed to allow Pakistan to airlift a "limited number" of Pakistani intelligence agents out of Afghanistan. Witnesses say that when the transport planes and helicopters arrived in Kunduz, hundreds of Taliban and foreign al-Qaeda fighters jostled for space on the flights. Locals believe that as many as 1,000 boarded the flights to Pakistan; according to Kunduz's deputy governor, Saeed Abra, the passengers included several al-Qaeda leaders and the staff and families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: Grading The Other War | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

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