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...took two Northeastern miscues to bring Harvard's first run across. Pena dropped a Javy Lopez fly ball to open the bottom of the fifth, an error that landed Lopez on second base. He later trotted home from third on a balk by Burns to break the shutout...
...Crimson editorial published May 2, 2001, “Powell Strong, But Not Enough,” mentioned mortar attacks on Israeli “settlements.” The area attacked was in fact a town within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. The Crimson regrets the error...
...intended to say that military-to-military ties should be subject to review on a case-by-case basis, but that a gung-ho aide had misinterpreted this to imply a blanket suspension of such ties. That left reporters asking why it had taken two days for an error of such profound geopolitical consequence to be noticed - and the Pentagon, officially at least, had no good answer. Unofficially, it was reported that Pentagon sources had said the retraction, which followed within hours of CNN broadcasting news of Monday's directive, reportedly came after State Department and National Security Council officials...
Even giving the Bush administration the benefit of the doubt on its hasty retraction of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's latest bit of saber-rattling sends an unfortunate signal to the Chinese: that an error by a lowly clerk in Washington is able to take U.S.-China relations...
...Respondents were first contacted via e-mail, and if they did not respond, follow-up phone calls were made. In total, the survey reached 372 students, approximately five percent of undergraduates. The maximum margin of error for any single question was approximately five percent and typically less...