Word: snafus
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...That's one, tiny example of how every encounter, from simple visa checks to complicated special ops, is fraught with the potential for misunderstanding, confusions and, in military parlance, snafus. Take the raid on the village of Band Taimore, 80 kilometers west of Kandahar. On the night of May 24, helicopters raining machine-gun fire descended onto the village wheat fields. The mission was a success. U.S. forces killed Haji Bajet, 70, a supporter of Taliban leader Mullah Omar since 1994, who also had links with Akhter Mohammed Usmani, the probable heir to the still-fugitive Omar...
...beats lawsuit filed by puppetmakers who claimed singers had misappropriated identity of artificial, sawdust-filled characters CLINT EASTWOOD Aging actor named to California Parks Commission. First order of business: cut him in half so tourists can count the rings Losers ZHU RONGJI Chinese Premier red-faced over economic forum snafus. To-do list for next Boao summit: fewer boring heads of state, more beer bongs MARLON BRANDO Godfather hit with big palimony suit by his maid. Who else is a guy who lives on his own private South Pacific island going to fool around with? HELEN CLARK Kiwi PM nailed...
...have assured access to other top Bush officials. Cook tells TIME he met with Assistant Defense Secretary John Stenbit last October to ask that Global Crossing be included in contract rebidding to hook up U.S. defense scientists. Global won an earlier bid for the $400 million job, but bureaucratic snafus forced the Pentagon to cancel it, a decision Cook protested to Stenbit...
Mattel and Hasbro have struggled for years with graying product lines and supply-chain snafus that, like clockwork each holiday season, resulted in shortages of the hottest toys. To woo investors back, each made forays into electronics and software, with disastrous results. Hasbro, after losing $200 million on an interactive division and website, sold both ventures for $100 million early this year. Mattel in 1999 bought educational-software maker The Learning Co. for $3.5 billion, only to unload it this year for an "undisclosed sum," which analysts say was virtually...
...team. Their air force is destroyed, they have few heavy weapons, and, says Ali Ahmad Jalali, a former colonel in the Afghan army, they are so undisciplined that in past battles, "they have rushed to the front line to share the glory and spoils." The U.S. Army would exploit snafus like that in a flash...