Word: fiascos
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...council is by and large doing well as it grows. Of course there have been bumps along the way. The check-bouncing fiasco of early this summer was a disappointing failure to communicate between the administration and the council, though I suspect that it is not the first time that these two groups have not dovetailed perfectly. But it was not the result of terrible management or shortsightedness or negligence or deceit; it was a genuine mistake. And, because it happened, there will be safeguards in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again...
HEINZ KERRY: Now I can't. I mean I could, but it would be such a fiasco at the Safeway. But until recently I always cooked. John is a good cook in some things, mostly desserts. He makes the best chocolate mousses and meringues. He takes pleasure in it. I thank goodness I grew up in a life that was rich in love, rich in order, rich in beauty, nature. Rich in the best ways a child's life should be rich--piano, music, books, stories, you name it. Good schools. So yes, I have a rich life that...
...response to the fish fiasco, Cabot House formed its own Department of War and allied with Mathergrad. Dunster House entered the fray by stealing the Eliot House banner, though it was turned over to the Harvard University Police Department subsequently...
...challenges before, Bush has met them with his characteristic mix of action and resolve, and he has been following a similar pattern. At the very moment that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under the heaviest fire from lawmakers (and from many in the Bush Administration) for mishandling the prison fiasco, Bush paid a rare visit to the morning meeting of his senior White House staff members and told them to button up. "If I hear any speculation coming out of the White House about the Secretary," he said, "you'll answer to me." Early last week Bush marched over...
...Above all, last week's test would conquer or confirm worldwide suspicions that Athens was blowing its deadline for the Games. The roof was already three months behind schedule, another dismal detail in a building program plagued by chronic delays and charges of incompetence. Anxious to avoid a p.r. fiasco, authorities limited coverage to Greek state TV. The Deputy Culture Minister nervously smashed a bottle of red wine on the base of the arch and looked skyward. The gods of Olympus answered her silent prayer. The 9,000-ton roof segment moved - just. The closing, fittingly, was excruciatingly slow...