Word: blunders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like Sigourney Weaver channeling a demon in Ghostbusters." This is the kind of bathos?the desperation to prove his hipness by making asinine references to pop culture?that helped sink Rushdie's last novel, Fury, generally acknowledged to be the worst he has written. After a first-page blunder like this, it requires a leap of faith simply to turn to page 2. But it's a leap worth making, because even though Shalimar is a flawed novel, it shows why Rushdie remains such a force to be reckoned with...
...beyond Kabul. But now the Taliban are making a comeback, and Afghanistan is once again the world leader in opium production. The war in Iraq was not necessary. Saddam Hussein had been contained, and he had nothing to do with the 9/11 terrorists. The Iraq invasion was a tragic blunder. Victor M. Silva Hermosa Beach, California...
...doing if it weren't in Iraq?" We could have used the money spent on the war to secure our ports, borders and public transportation and to further any number of domestic projects. Instead, billions have gone into destroying and then rebuilding Iraq. The Iraq invasion was a tragic blunder...
...court appointees."... To be sure, Reagan's announcement that he intended to elevate [Sandra Day] O'Connor to the highest U.S. Government post ever held by a woman had its roots in partisan politics. Mainly because he had been portrayed by Jimmy Carter as a man who might blunder the nation into war, Reagan had lacked strong support among women in last year's campaign. --TIME, July...
...theology chairman at the University of Notre Dame, Father Richard McBrien, considers the Curran case "the biggest blunder the Vatican has committed with the American church" in two decades. But to a more conservative theologian in Rome "the question is, Why did the Vatican wait so long?" --By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Rome and Jim Castelli/Washington