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Trial and Error...
Fundamentally, last week's warnings were confusing because the people issuing them are also confused. A close look at what triggered the alerts shows government officials operating in a mixture of self-protection, public interest and trial and error. Legitimate new details had surfaced about possible security risks, but because of old-fashioned p.r. fumbles, information too enigmatic for public dissemination leaked out, compounding the confusion. To make matters worse, besieged politicians and bureaucrats have started to overcompensate for past lapses by sharing more than necessary. "Now the feeling is 'When in doubt, put it out,'" says a U.S. counterterrorism...
...dead and that White was finished. And then, in a truly inspired piece of bureaucratic jujitsu, Rumsfeld sent his Post-it note to White--and held a press conference in which he not only praised the Army boss but brought him before the cameras to confess the error of his ways. Asked if White was now falling in line, Rumsfeld flashed the grin that has made Pentagon briefings more entertaining than Saturday Night Live. He said, "Do you think I would have invited him up to the podium and offered him an opportunity to oppose the President of the United...
Whitton made the error hurt, bouncing a seeing-eye single past Marconi to score Stefanchik. But after a groundout and strikeout, it looked as if Lion workhorse Allison Buehler—pitching in her third game of the day—would hold Harvard to just one run in the inning...
...Lion batter grounded out and advanced the runners to second and third with two outs, Buehler had a chance to give herself some support from the plate, and she connected well on a hard line drive to second. But senior Cherry Fu made the catch, redeeming herself for an error earlier that inning...