Word: oversights
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BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania-Except for one minor oversight on Saturday, the Harvard Crimson football team did everything right in their game against the Lehigh Mountain Hawks...
...This oversight was forgetting to show up for the fourth quarter in Bethlehem, PA, and it turned a comfortable 29 point lead into a close-call 35-30 victory...
Renno's talents will be tested as he faces the looming share sell-off. Nationalism runs high in Brazil, and many citizens oppose any auction of national patrimony. Government oversight is another perennial issue. Many important decisions about Petrobras are made not at corporate headquarters in Rio de Janeiro but at government ministries in Brasilia. In the past this has led to overstaffing and inefficiencies that could hinder the pace of future growth. "There has to be a change of mentality from being big to being more profitable," notes Ana Siqueira, an energy analyst with Icatu, a Rio de Janeiro...
...both surprising and sad then to see a lapse in that oversight in a story on tensions in Jerusalem from the Reuters newsservice in last Thursday's paper. Accompanying that story was a photograph depicting a Palestinian Arab youth confronting an Israeli Border Policeman. The caption to that photograph fails to measure up to the Crimson's high standards on two counts...
...hope and believe that this was an isolated instance of oversight and that we can continue to receive the same quality of journalism from the Crimson in the future as we have come to expect in the past. --Rustin Silverstein '99, David Honig '99 Co-Chairs, Harvard Students for Israel