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...failed to wrest power from Chavez with a coup d'etat in 2002 and a nationwide oil strike that paralyzed the country later that year. They only seemed to deepen their hole when they lost a 2004 referendum to oust Chavez and then boycotted parliamentary elections last year - a blunder that allowed Chavez allies to take 100% control of Venezuela's National Assembly and strengthened his seeming omnipotence. Since then, divisive infighting has been the opposition's norm...
...silence the cast held for America’s soldiers in Iraq. The joke’s blatant offensiveness inspired uncomfortable laughter initially, but as the moment of silence dragged on past the two minute mark the crowd settled into an unpleasant funk. Luckily, the musical recovered from that blunder and finished with the same manic energy with which it began. “Maude and Harold” was an affront to decency, a celebration of obscenity, and an assault on the values and institutions that most people consider sacrosanct, and that’s precisely...
...loved nothing more than to see the pro-demoracy protestors smash through the police cordons and storm the royal palace. Rejecting the King's announcement, the leader of the Maoists, who uses the nom-de-guerre Prachanda (the fierce one), said that the political parties had committed an "historic blunder" by ending the protests. He also announced that the Maoists would immediately blockade Kathmandu and other major towns until a special assembly, with the power to draft a new constitution for Nepal, was formed...
...replace suspended NHL defenseman Eric Cairns for three games in late March. And wouldn’t you know, Welch’s own-goal made SportsCenter’s “Not Top 10”—in fact, it was the No. 1 blunder...
...decision applicants who were already rejected were accidentally sent a welcome e-mail two months later. At the end of that same year, Duke University made the opposite mistake. It told dozens of successful early applicants that they had been deferred. And the University of Georgia made a grave blunder in sending 112 hard-copy acceptance letters—as well as banners carrying the school colors—to rejected students. Yet despite a number of mix-ups at various institutions, students do not seem to be too skeptical of the admissions e-mails they receive. John W. Hastrup...