Word: fiascos
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...Jones stock price languished? It's a long story. The company took a well-deserved hammering for its failure to dominate the desktop analysis business, opening the door for Michael Bloomberg. That fiasco had no sooner passed into history than the entire newspaper sector began to sag. Dow Jones hasn't had a fair shot in years to show how strong its core business might become...
...Some good may yet come of this fiasco for Israel's military - also harshly criticized in the report - for which last summer's war was a wakeup call. For the past quarter century, the Israeli Defense Force has been largely engaged in occupation missions, and its war-fighting capacity has eroded. The country's top brass is hard at work on learning the lessons of what Israel calls "The Second Lebanon War," in the expectation that there may be a third as early as this summer...
...will find Karl Rove. One of the few things Alberto Gonzales could recall at his Senate hearing on the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys was Rove's mentioning the names of three he thought were underperforming. Rove is at the center of the White House's lost-e-mail fiasco. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is talking to Rove's former assistant as part of its probe into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with the White House. And on April 24, the Los Angeles Times reported that the independent Office of Special Counsel is investigating...
...Catch the last weekend of “Jazz Week” and commemorate Duke Ellington’s birthday. Sax diva Grace Kelly will be playing at Borders in Back Bay. 511 Boylston St., Boston. Saturday, 7 p.m. Free! Rock On Do you like cheap concerts? The Casual Fiasco and The Brew are playing at Best of Boston’s Paradise Rock Club and Lounge. Rock on. 967-969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Friday. $10 Jazz it Up! Give your ears a rest after Third Eye Blind with jazz-latin fusion vocalist Marta Gomez at the nearby Regatta...
...claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk of the state. Matthew Lee Cloyd, 21, Benjamin Moseley, 20 and Russell DeBusk, 20, all white, were drunk and out to use their car headlights to stun and then shoot deer. When that turned into an inebriated fiasco, said DeBusk, "We agreed to break into a church and one of our number decided to light a jar of plastic flowers." Things got out of hand after that...