Then, as his troops converged on Kandahar, he narrowly escaped death when an American bomb went astray.

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Three missed penalties all went astray and it was Strange's opposite number Thomas who showed how it should be done.

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Mowbray said it was an individual error that cost Celtic dear, the goal coming after a pass from Stephen McManus went astray.

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Some of those missing checks went astray due to bureaucratic snafus: It looks like Microsoft may have sent Yang's money to the wrong address.

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Rooney then tried to pay in Berbatov, who was called off the bench as United employed a three-man forward line, but the pass went astray.

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Several others have been wounded, including five U.S. soldiers seriously when a similar bomb went astray while warplanes were helping put down a Taliban prisoner uprising near Mazar-e Sharif.

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What makes the promoters of the new orthodoxy so sure that they have succeeded where Plowden went astray is that there is now a far stronger body of evidence about which teaching methods seem to be most successful.

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It was the election of Viktor Yanukovich as Ukraine's president in February that was seen in Moscow as paving the way for the return to the Russian fold of a prodigal son who went astray after the Orange revolution in 2004.

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