Word: fiascos
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...socialize] are going to go out of their dorms anyways,” Zaccagnino says. “The idea is not to shift the social scene from the Houses to the Pub, but from outside bars to the Pub.”PUBMaybe the Harvard fun fiasco is not a matter of House life, the Pub, student group meeting areas, or the elusive central space. Look to examples such as Corker, Abraham, and Haan—all are fun-loving, spirited leaders who managed to have a great time at Harvard sans Pub, Hilles, a caf?...
...easy to assign blame for the Katrina relief fiasco?there are plenty of targets. It is much harder to accept responsibility. What went wrong? The American people persist in voting for political demagogues who promise them continued services for lower taxes. Government is not, despite what former President Ronald Reagan claimed, the problem. Nor is it, as others have asserted, a beast that must be starved. Government is society's means to collectively address problems that are too large or costly for individuals to handle. In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve. By shortsightedly choosing lower taxes...
...easy to assign blame for the Katrina relief fiasco - there are plenty of targets. It is much harder to accept responsibility. What went wrong? The American people persist in voting for political demagogues who promise them continued services for lower taxes. Government is not, despite what former President Ronald Reagan claimed, the problem. Nor is it, as others have asserted, a beast that must be starved. Government is society's means to collectively address problems that are too large or costly for individuals to handle. In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve. By shortsightedly choosing lower taxes...
...might think that afterMichael Brown's FEMA fiasco, the White House would try to avoid any appearance of cronyism in job appointments requiring technical expertise. You might think that after the Plan B contraceptive flap and safety problems with drugs like Vioxx, it would seek to avoid controversy while picking someone to run the embattled Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Think again...
...FEMA be fixed? Administration officials tell TIME they plan to rework the agency's makeup and responsibilities--and perhaps even change its name to shed the stigma following the Hurricane Katrina fiasco. As Michael Brown, the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, emphasized during his occasionally churlish testimony on Capitol Hill last week, "FEMA does not own fire trucks, ambulances, search-and-rescue equipment." Says James Jay Carafano, an authority on homeland security at the conservative Heritage Foundation: "It's the National Disaster Coordinating Agency. You could probably come up with a sexier name, but that's what...