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...McCain forgot that there?s no such thing as a regional press. Whatever he tells the Chronicle, he tells New Hampshire, and South Carolina ?- and he can?t afford to be that fat a target for conservative Republicans." And that?s not the worst of it. This goof, says Carney, was particularly bad because it was McCain that made it. "McCain?s central appeal is that he doesn?t pander, doesn?t flip-flop, shoots straight and consequences be damned," he says. "Now some of that is gone, and he?s angered the right...
These occurrences need not be cataclysmic. They can be something as simple as the sight of a young girl practicing with her Hula Hoop (Lolita). Or a communications goof in the supposedly fail-safe nuclear-defense program (Dr. Strangelove). Or, as in the case of Eyes Wide Shut--which is due to open July 16 after years of wildly misguided speculation about its content--a confession of unconsummated sexual flirtation...
...should hope that in the undergraduate years you should have a chance to goof off, in an academic sense," says Peter B. Machinist '66, head tutor for the Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department. "You know, life is too short. Let's make as much...
...they snap? I think they snapped a bunch of times," says Brooks Brown. "Every time someone slammed them against a locker and threw a bottle at them, I think they'd go back to Eric or Dylan's house and plot a little more--at first as a goof, but more and more seriously over time. It's a theory, but it makes sense to everyone who knew them...
WINNER: Dacula. Turned own hickish goof into brush with fame...