Word: fiascos
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...aversion to taking political risks after his proposed 1997 overhaul of the state's property-tax law, a highly ambitious attempt to correct some ancient inequities in the system, ended in a revolt by G.O.P. legislators and business allies. Bush was able to salvage a tax cut from the fiasco, but he told TIME last fall that the experience taught him that "the status quo is really powerful. In times when there is not a crisis, it's hard to get people to act boldly." And Bush knows from watching his father what happens when a desire for boldness...
...couple weeks ago, the day of the Greg fiasco, I chatted with someone at CBS. If the leaks were real, I asked, how could CBS be so stupid...
After the ambassadorial fiasco, Bill turned to the metier of novelist. His utterly atrocious "mystery," Mackerel By Moonlight, was greeted by the media as perhaps the worst book written in the Western World. Bill's career looked to be on a downward slippery slope, but he valiantly tried to salvage his reputation by returning to his background in law and purchasing an apartment in New York City to be close to all the action. Sadly, recent Boston Globe articles reported the demise of Weld's marriage with his quiet, cerebral wife--a woman notoriously shy of government functions and engrossed...
Officials claim the security fiasco isn't as bad as it sounds; they insist the intruders, who at one point were left unsupervised (still holding their briefcases) in the CIA building, were never in contact with any classified material. Only by choice, it would seem, when one considers that GAO agents were allowed to roam freely through the office suites of Attorney General Janet Reno and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. And while neither official was present during this particular encroachment, their absence was due to luck, rather than security measures. Predictably, federal security officials claim that reports...
Hanging out at a taco stand near his home this month, Epps shrugs off the fiasco as if the bomb's blast didn't faze him one bit. Now 26, he has appeared in half a dozen films in the past three years, working steadily since his 1992 debut as a Harlem teen in Juice made casting directors notice his quiet forcefulness, strong build and deep, soulful eyes. (Danes has called him "one of the most beautiful men I've ever seen.") He's wrapped shooting on acclaimed Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano's first American crime film, Brother, and this...