Word: blundering
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...there, as fans can attest, is a timeless, effervescent cocktail of comic juxtapositions, smoothly musical prose and exuberant generosity. "Behind the Drones and the manor house weekends," writes McCrum, "is a sweet, melancholy nostalgia for an England of innocent laughter and song." An England that Wodehouse, after his thoughtless blunder, never saw again...
...They are also being press-ganged into something else: national service. Last year, the regime ordered civil servants to undergo a month of military training. Teaching a restive, resentful population how to fight seems a tactical blunder, but trainees are only given sticks, not rifles, and I hear that those with 15,000 kyat (about $17) can buy themselves out. The Burmese military is stronger than ever?nearly 40% of the national budget goes to the armed forces, making them the second largest in Southeast Asia after Vietnam's?but also more paranoid than ever. The state-run media...
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...
...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...