Word: fiascoes
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...safety committee rounded the last corner of its basement meeting last week, universal keycard access was gently brushed aside. The bigger issues—the SafetyWalk fiasco, police deployment, community advisories and the Cambridge Common—dominated conversation...
...withdrawal. "It is better to side with the people than to cling to power," Khatami's brother Reza, leader of the largest reform party, told TIME. "The next parliament will be undemocratic, but that doesn't mean democracy in Iran has failed." Maybe so, but judging by the election fiasco, its success is a long...
...strongest unifying force among most black voters is a shared rage against Bush. That resentment was ignited during the Florida recount fiasco, which many blacks perceived as rigged against them in all too familiar ways. Says four-term Georgia state senator Vincent Fort: "After Florida and four years of an extreme right-wing agenda, after seeing George W. Bush lay a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. and then turn around and go back to Washington and appoint a [Mississippi judge] Charles Pickering [Sr.] to the federal bench--I think the African-American voter will be energized...
...Indeed, Tsang has suffered more than his usually happy-go-lucky onscreen persona would suggest. He was the uncredited director for half of the infamous Jackie Chan fiasco Armour of God, and it was under his watch that Chan experienced his worst accident ever, which required brain surgery and a one-year hiatus. And Tsang's personal life hasn't exactly been a romantic comedy. His first marriage, in 1972, which produced two daughters?Wing-yee, now a housewife, and Bowie, today a popular TV personality in Taiwan?ended in divorce after four years. "I liked hanging out with...
...recall the 2001 fiasco, where a Conference USA game between TCU and Southern Miss. gave Nebraska enough of an edge in its strength of schedule to pass Colorado by .05 points for the right to be Miami’s whipping boy in the Rose Bowl, despite the fact that the Buffaloes thumped the Huskers 62-36 to end Nebraska’s regular season...