Word: snafu
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...like to see in the district’s new leader. At least one School Committee member, Patricia M. Nolan ’80, brought up an issue with the data, saying that the methodology gave extra weight to some respondents’ opinions. “The only snafu that we had tonight was in tallying the responses,” said Luc D. Schuster, the co-chair of the superintendent search subcommittee and Nolan’s frequent ally. “The firm didn’t weight proportionally the number of respondents in each category...
...Hoevels himself seems to have put the snafu behind him. "I am now absolutely fine again," he told local media, "but I will always for the rest of my working life have a strange feeling about this scene." After reprising the role Sunday, albeit with neck bandaged, Hoevels headed back to Hamburg Monday in preparation for his role in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. In that play, the long-suffering title character winds up shooting himself in the head. Someone might want to double-check...
...Hefner considered Playboy (which would have been called Stag Party if not for a copyright snafu) a liberating force for both sexes. But naturally, some women questioned whether swapping aprons for lingerie constituted a net gain. After some 300 protestors organized by a Chicago women's group picketed the Playboy mansion in 1970, a female secretary leaked to the press a memo that underscored Hef's antipathy toward "militant feminists": "What I'm interested in is the highly irrational, emotional, kookie [sic] trend that feminism has taken...these chicks are our natural enemy. It is time to do battle with...
...63rd General Assembly session. The McCain campaign allowed photographers (but not reporters) to sit in during her meetings with eight world leaders. After news organizations threatened to boycott coverage of the events, the campaign responded by allowing a CNN producer access. The campaign called the snafu a misunderstanding...
Just a few days before the Pennsylvania primary, Colbert scored a hat trick: three Democratic candidates in one night. First came a "surprise" walk-on by Hillary Clinton, who showed up to help fix a technical snafu with the show's video feed. "I just love solving problems," she quipped. "Call me anytime. Call me at 3 a.m." Clinton's former rival John Edwards came next, joking about what he wanted from the two remaining Democratic candidates in return for his endorsement. (Help for the poor, and a pair of jet skis.) Finally, Barack Obama chimed in via satellite, doing...