Word: blunderer
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...Some 3,400 Chinese public school students in San Francisco cannot speak English, but only half of them receive any supplemental language training. The rest are forced to blunder through. The court ruled unanimously that San Francisco must find a remedy. Said William Douglas: "There is no equality of treatment merely by providing students with the same facilities, text books, teachers and curriculum; for students who do not understand English are effectively foreclosed from any meaningful education." The ruling, based on federal regulations rather than the Constitution, will also cover the more widespread problem of students who speak only Spanish...
...Richard Nixon, had just praised him as "probably the best President we have had in this century." Next morning, the Post had a far more surprising item on the front page: a two-column erratum box explaining that Goldwater had really been referring to Harry Truman. Before the blunder was corrected, however, the original story was distributed-and printed-across the country last week via the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post news service...
...confusing the heritability within a population with the causes of differences between populations was clearly made by Arthur Jensen in his famous article in the Harvard Educational Review, when he tried to infer from heritability studies within the American white population the causes of differences between races. This elementary blunder would not be tolerated in a freshman class in statistics or genetics. We may well wonder how it came to be made by a professor! Precisely the same error is made in arguments about the genetic inferiority of the working class. By referring over and over again to the "high...
...popularity this summer, but lately the disillusionment has moved from the political left to include most of those in the middle and many on the traditional right. In one of its strongest outbursts, the conservative Chicago Tribune called the President's firing of Cox a "colossal blunder." While only a few weeks ago, most people were willing to give him at least the benefit of the doubt if not their full trust, his credibility today is virtually nonexistent. A Chicago newspaper sampling showed that 63% of the people in the area do not believe the White House statement that...
...appoint a special prosecutor, and they are trying to recoup their reputations at my expense. I'm a big trophy. Well, I'm not going to fall down and be his [Petersen's] victim, I can assure you." He added that Petersen had not only mishandled Watergate but, through "blunder," had also prevented the successful prosecution of high crime figures because of wiretapping errors...