Word: fiascos
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...January, a pack of reporters from every major media outlet descended upon Cambridge and put the University's seemingly callous action in America's spotlight. Dozens of phone calls from every state in the Union flooded the Harvard News Office in what turned out to be a public relations fiasco of national proportions...
Last January's public relations fiasco had little impact on the powers-that-be in Massachusetts Hall, according to Cambridge City Councilor David E. Sullivan. "Aside from [President Derek C.] Bok's program which benefitted students working in shelters, I can't think of anything the Harvard administration has done [to alleviate the homelessness problem in Cambridge]. Perhaps they forgot about...
...shekels from Newsweek), than they deserve. What hasn't gotten so much remark is the character of the man himself. Perhaps people are tired of Stockman, perhaps Michael Deaver's shenanigans have supplied everyone's sleaze fix, but Triumph is not only the tale of history's greatest fiscal fiasco, it's an extraordinary summary of the political degeneration of a generation, a moral and institutional slackness that characterizes politics the Harvard...
Referring to the attack on U.S. marines stationed in Beirut, Haddad said "the Lebanese fiasco" cost the U.S. credibility in the Middle East because Americans overestimated their military efficacy in the convoluted world of Middle Eastern politics...
...year was last week's Big Deal, a splashy, sassy, streetwise show from Bob Fosse. As choreographer or director, Fosse, 58, staged ten consecutive hits, from 1955's Pajama Game to 1978's Dancin'. Since Gower Champion's death in 1980 and Harold Prince's semiretirement after the 1985 fiasco Grind, Fosse has stood alone in his capacity to make movement seem magic. On the strength of his name, ticket buyers gave Big Deal a $1.5 million advance. The Shubert Organization invested $1.1 million co-producing the spectacle and an additional $7.5 million renovating its showcase, the Broadway Theater. With...