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  • Lyndon Johnson swiftly wrote Eisenhower a letter enclosing a Philadelphia Inquirer column by Marguerite Higgins titled “Laird Flunks as Historian.”

    Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

  • Regarding the op-ed "Noynoy Flunks His First Test" (Sept. 6), on the Aquino administration's handling of the Aug. 23 hostage incident:

    After Tragedy, Manila Is Moving Forward 2010

  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 5/25/09: The Times Flunks Ethics 101 yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Times Flunks Ethics 101'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Within days, news dribbled out that two New York Times columnists and a reporter had violated bedrock guidelines of journalistic ethics: thou shalt not steal others\' words, thou shalt not accept payment from those about whom you write, and thou shalt avoid conflict of interest.

    The Times Flunks Ethics 101 2009

  • John F. Kennedy, Jr. failed the bar exam, winning him the headline, "The Hunk Flunks."

    Nannies And Taxes 2009

  • Rene Keller Kloten, SwitzerlandThe Bush & Bush Team Governor Bush is being ridiculed for not knowing the names of the leaders of other countries ( "Bush Flunks a Quiz," U.S. Affairs, Nov. 15).

    Predicting The Last Days 2008

  • EXCLUSIVELos Alamos Flunks a Security Test Just as the FBI seemed to be clearing up loose ends in its investigation of fired Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, NEWSWEEK has learned of other security worries at the atomic-research facility.

    Periscope 2008

  • When he failed the bar exam a second time, the New York Post ran a bold front-page headline that read: “The Hunk Flunks.”

    American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

  • The student had half the grade at a C, that means even if he Flunks the other half the grade he gets a D.

    <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/01/retaliatory-grading-by-duke-professor.html" title="Retaliatory grading Ann Althouse 2007

  • When he failed the bar exam a second time, the New York Post ran a bold front-page headline that read: “The Hunk Flunks.”

    American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

  • I got to spend time with Lisa and present her with the first bound copy of her novel Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time, and she gave a terrific reading at our literary brunch and had the longest signing lines afterward.

    June 2005 Cheryl 2005

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