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...latest UC election snafu inspired revolutionaries in the class of 2013 to take up the cause against the UC and call for a government “free from corruption” run purely by freshman students...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The WTF Era Begins? | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...sock caught on something at the top of the rocket, something an amused NASA spokesman later insisted hadn't occurred in 500 practice runs. It took nine minutes of mostly close-up, viral-video-quality tugging before the dangling sock released, even as engineers debated whether the snafu amounted to a launch-canceling problem. (See pictures from the Mars space lander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ares Liftoff: Learning from Space Shuttle Mistakes | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...with disabilities. (Palin's fifth child, Trig, has Down syndrome.) "They have been all over the map for the most part since the election," says a former GOP aide who worked with Palin. "But this trip has been smart." Perhaps it seemed that way at first, but the dinner snafu has given further fuel to GOP critics, who wasted no time in seizing on it as further evidence that Palin is a political amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Governor Who Came to Dinner: Did the GOP Snub Palin? | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...uncertainty reflects poorly on those in charge of the sport - essentially Ecclestone and the FIA. The snafu "brings to light that there's no real professional process in place to agree on the future" of Formula One, says the former adviser. Stewart agrees. "There's got to be a restructuring of the governing body to project more stability," he says, "to take it through the long term." For now, fans will just be hoping that that future includes Ferrari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Formula One Run Without Ferrari? | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...admiration for his idealism, but a low-income college student turning down thousands of dollars essentially because he “hasn’t even been to Puerto Rico” smacks of pretension. His feeble arguments against accepting the money sound especially forced when a financial aid snafu later reveals how badly he could use it.The film relies predominantly on unfortunate stereotypes that place characters in racially charged scenarios. The out of touch, all-white administration’s only response to campus racism is to hold forums on race for the entire school. Predictably, these forums devolve...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spinning Into Butter | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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