Word: fiascoes
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Ever since Harvard captured its last Beanpot title in 1981, the Crimson has not won a first-round game. Last year, the Crimson's 1980's venture into the Beanpot reached a new low with the "goal-that-wasn't-but-still-was" fiasco against Boston College in the consolation game...
...almost arctic temperatures. For 15 minutes he challenged the premise of many questions and repeatedly pleaded a failure to remember. He staunchly refused to discuss what advice he had given the President, although he has portrayed himself at times as a solid supporter of the arms-to-Iran fiasco and at other times as a man who expressed some private reservations...
That's why Bob Dole's recent, forceful questioning of Bush's Iran-contra role is entirely in order. We hope that Bush recognizes the validity of concerns about his knowledge of the fiasco and soon discloses his involvement. It is not a hopeful sign, however, that so far his only concrete response to his chief rival for the Republican nomination has been to suggest--apparently without merit--a conflict of interest associated with the handling of Elizabeth Dole's blind trust and to call for the Kansas senator to release income taxes for the past 10 years. Perhaps Dole...
Blarney. Clonbrony was a fiasco that began when a band of poorly organized and inadequately armed Fenian nationalists tried to take the local police barracks, and ended with the attackers scattered into the trees and hunted down one by one. Blood was drawn but no honor satisfied. The participants became public heroes and martyrs, but privately their failure bred resentment, which thrived on blame, which in turn sought enemies within. They were not in short supply, given the tangle of feudal alliances and tribal betrayals that confounded the ideals of nationhood. The wounds of Clonbrony festered and spread violence...
...million tons in 1981. Bad weather played a role. So did Brezhnev, who announced a grandiose reorganization of agriculture that seemed to create more problems than it solved. Still, it is remarkable that Gorbachev managed not only to escape blame but to advance his career amid the farming fiasco. Only a year after returning to Moscow, he became a candidate member of the Politburo. The following year, at 49, he was made a full member. Gorbachev was eight years younger than the next youngest Politburo member and 21 years younger than the average age of his colleagues...