Word: snafuing
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...we’re not the only ones who lose out. The scheduling snafu could have very real implications for the team. Even in a normal year, when half the Harvard student body isn’t AWOL, Cornell fans regularly outnumber and outcheer the Harvard section when the two teams meet in Cambridge. This year, any hope of home ice advantage, if it ever truly existed, will go out the window, as the “home” crowd will be more hostile than what you’ll find at most road contests...
...simply an architectural snafu? Perhaps the engineers got the plans wrong, and Holy Cross had never gotten around to fixing things...
Some interesting comments emerged in the aftermath of last weekend’s BMF/ABHW snafu. Both on e-mail lists and in passing, students claimed shock that something like this could happen here, at Harvard, among minds thought to be above such poor judgment...
...Because the case is now before the FCC, Fox won't comment on steps the network is taking to make sure a dirty crowd shot snafu doesn't happen again. In any event, the FCC isn't likely to do anything until a federal appeals court rules on the FCC's new indecency enforcement policy, fueled in part by Jackson's breast-baring show. That policy, which would impose fines for certain types of graphic profanity, is being challenged by the major networks, including Fox. More crowd shots like the one during the Eagles-Saints game probably won't help...
...growers inadvertently sold damaged fruit. An orange often takes days to show decay on the outside, even though it will be bitter and dry on the inside. California growers are now holding harvested fruit in packing houses for four to five days and testing it to avoid another PR snafu. And while growers will make more money on the few oranges they are able to sell, they are also aware that they have an incentive to keep a cap on the extra margin. Peaches, nectarines and grapes, many of which come from Chile, are now hitting their peak season...