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...large as Klatsky’s misses would loom, an even bigger Penn blunder might have been a fumbled defensive rebound by Quaker forward Ugonna Onyekwe earlier in the extra session...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Notebook: Finally, Harvard Has Mental Edge | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...probably heard the one about the Chevy Nova: General Motors' effort to market the car in Spanish-speaking countries--where no va means "doesn't go"--is a legendary blunder. And cross-language advertising is a bigger challenge than ever, as the first American company that tries to use the word pet in a French ad will find out. Intel is known for its cutting-edge technology, but the original translation of its Pentium IV chip was too edgy for Koreans; it means "chip of death." Kentucky Fried Chicken found good news and bad news when it went global with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exporting: And What Does It Mean in Farsi? | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...later split up, communicating via human messengers and walkie-talkies. The implosion of Taliban-held territory left both men with few places to run outside of southeastern Afghanistan, and intelligence sources told TIME they believed friction between the two would lead one of them to make a fateful blunder that gave away their locations. "The confidence level is fairly high," a senior U.S. official told TIME. "We've got a pretty good handle on generally where [bin Laden] is." American warplanes were dispatched to help finish the job. EGBU-28 bunker busters burrowed through yards of limestone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt for bin Laden | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...later split up, communicating via human messengers and walkie- talkies. The implosion of Taliban-held territory left both men with few places to run outside of southeastern Afghanistan, and intelligence sources told Time they believed friction between the two would lead one of them to make a fateful blunder that gave away their locations. "The confidence level is fairly high," a senior U.S. official told Time. "We've got a pretty good handle on generally where [bin Laden] is." American warplanes were dispatched to help finish the job. EGBU-28 bunker busters burrowed through yards of limestone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden | 11/18/2001 | See Source »

...left side of the aisle, you see, and is therefore blameless. In an especially trenchant bit of analysis, the editorial decided that the musical instruments amendment was an example of the GOP leadership catering to special interests. And there you have it: what looked like an honest bipartisan blunder was in fact nothing but the old Republican-musician racket rearing its ugly head once again...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, | Title: Those Frightful Partisans | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

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