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Ironically, in what may have been the most disappointing performance of the weekend, Harvard's 400m relay team was disqualified after the baton was mishandled in the exchange between Williams and freshman Lee Shearer. However, the blunder will not prevent the relay team from competing in the ECAC Championships this weekend, an invitational meet at Boston University...
...hockey team this season, the Crimson is still committing some fundamental errors that are costing it garbage goals. After bombarding St. Lawrence goalie Clint Owen in a furious offensive assault for most of the second period, the Crimson gave up its fourth goal on a two-on-one defensive blunder...
...political blunder sure to provoke nostalgia for the Nixon Administration: the Wall Street Journal reported that Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary hired a Washington firm to investigate reporters and news organizations in an effort to determine the sources of negative stories about the department. Though O'Leary got a stern rebuke from the White House, it decided she could stay at her post...
...College Board didn't respond to the incident with a profound apology, or even an indifferent "oops." In fact, this was neither a freak accident, nor a bureaucratic blunder. "It was not a slip-up," asserted Ray Nicosia of ETS. Defending the practice of reusing old exams, he said that ETS has been repeating versions of the SAT for "a great many years." Janice Gams of the College Board, adding to the don't-worry-we-know-what-we're-doing defense, suggested that when students have no knowledge that the exam will be repeated, "seeing the test form...
...nuclear power. "He thought he could prove to the French and the world that because of his decision France was back, and he was an authentic President," wrote Serge July, influential editor of the left-leaning daily Liberation. "Instead the world and the French have witnessed the planetary blunder of a President out of step with the [post-cold...