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...Princeton wants to continue issuing press releases, it’s fine with [West],” Ogletree said. “But it’s a little unsettling to have an institution with such a high reputation have to admit that it engaged in such a stupid blunder and to then garner the publicity from it in a way that’s not helpful to Cornel West or the integrity of the university...
Still, the Academy’s biggest blunder is their embracing of the studio advertising machine, which sometimes allows subpar films to get in the mix (remember the horrendous Chocolat?), and subsequently breeds increased ignorance towards great small films or ones that weren’t box office hits...
...also prove to have been the U.S.'s most calamitous blunder. According to authorities in Uruzgan and the surrounding area, the Americans killed the wrong guys. The soldiers slaughtered at Sharzam, they say, were not enemy fighters but anti-Taliban troops loyal to U.S.-backed interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. They belonged to a military commission appointed by the new provincial government to oversee the collection of leftover Taliban weapons. "A terrible mistake has been made," said Abdul Ghani, an Uruzgan businessman...
...Philippine military brass admit a mistake was made - a colossal blunder - but say it was an error of judgment: apparently the soldiers were called away to a strategy meeting. They did not, insists the military, get paid off to let the rebels go. Father Nacorda says hospital staff saw Brigadier General Romeo Dominguez's aides carrying briefcases full of cash inside the hospital, though they didn't see any change hands between soldiers and rebels. Nacorda believes the army paid a ransom for the hostages, pocketing a cut for themselves. Brigadier General Dominguez, whose integrity is praised inside...
...provocative, supersmart and, oh yeah, just a little sexy." The last word seemed to be accompanied by the sound of a zipper. News executives said no one on their side had been consulted, nor had Zahn herself. The ad was pulled first thing Monday. Calling the ad a "major blunder," CNN chairman Walter Isaacson said in a statement, "I am outraged, and so is Paula, who has spent more than 20 years proving her credibility day in and day out on the air." Still unexplained is how the network managed to overlook the erotic appeal of Lou Dobbs...