One is the recording label's EMI, sort of the most screwed-up label out there.

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She oozed all over the stage to Sexomatic, belted out I Can't Wait To Meetchu to her maker (only to be answered by a very heavy downpour), and pleased the crowd no-end with the ode to screwed-up lovin', Still.

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It's much easier to believe--and probably true--that they screwed up, as an addicted gambler might.

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No matter how much a financial-services executive has screwed up, people are willing to give them money to manage and positions of responsibility.

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Sadik-Khan hasn't screwed up, but she has ruffled plenty of feathers.

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"We feel like we're prisoners here now because the market is so screwed up because of this, " the 80-year-old retired Navy captain said.

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The more screwed up the product is, the more service is required -- and the more money the company makes.

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The prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, was caught on tape telling party colleagues that his government, re-elected in June this year, had lied, screwed up and done nothing.

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Oddly enough, while Sony seems to be encouraging all OEMs to get going on a recall, we still haven't seen a recall for Sony's own laptops -- which seem to be just as defective as the rest of them, peep that picture above -- but hopefully Sony will be fessing up to those soon so we can all be one big, happy screwed-by-Sony family.

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But when people foul up in a spectacular fashion, especially when it involves a personal matter, Americans will give them a break and a second chance -- as long as they stand up like a man or a woman, admit they screwed up, say they're sorry and look like they damn well mean it.

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