Word: fiascoes
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...land purchases that infuriated the surrounding communities. While Rudenstine finalized the deal that began during the administration of Derek C. Bok, he recently admitted that Harvard should have handled the issue differently. But Harvard’s relations with the surrounding communities have remained tense since the land-buying fiasco. The city of Cambridge has had a particularly antagonistic relationship with the University, with residents angry about development, payments in lieu of taxes and wage issues. And given the impending purchase of a major commercial office building in Watertown, Harvard will have to walk a fine line to reconcile local...
During the Florida recount fiasco, which Tallahassee Republicans call "the recent unpleasantness," national pundits consigned Governor Jeb Bush to the chad heap of history. They clucked last month when he fought with his brother the President over oil drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast (W. wants to; Jeb does not). And they dished last week when Jeb denounced the "sickening" (and apparently unfounded) rumor that he'd had an affair with a state official, once a Playboy bunny...
...McVeigh fiasco comes just as the FBI is having to defend itself against charges that it is capable of brutal indifference to individual rights if it feels justified by some larger goal. It's hard even to say which was the worst of the recent crop of federal offenses, though the McVeigh blunder probably doesn't make the top five. Two weeks ago, officials from the Boston FBI field office were hauled before the House Committee on Government Reform to explain why they had allowed Joseph Salvati to spend 30 years in prison for a murder they knew he didn...
...Bristol Myers Squibb and American Home Products are his favorites. Drug analyst Barbara Ryan of Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown concurs: she says estimates for Bristol's earnings are too low--she's penciling in 13% or 14% annually over the next three years. And now that the fen-phen fiasco is behind American Home, she says, the company can concentrate on drugs like Enbrel for rheumatoid arthritis...
Sure, peacekeeping missions never seem to work out, but why get discouraged? Is it that League of Nations fiasco they told us about in eighth grade? Or the farcical fecklessness of the United Nations? Fuhgettaboutit. This time around we’ll get it right; since we won’t be relying on run-of-the-mill, amateur Joe Soldiers but actual specialized Peacekeepers, we can respectfully conflict-manage and dialogue on, what ho! till the cows come home. We will specialize in making our safe havens safe, as secure as the sturdiest Swiss vault. Just not like Srebrenica...