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While the pundits simultaneously applauded Freeh's integrity as a prosecutor, judge, and now FBI director, they insinuated that he had tilted against Reno to shore up his reputation with Republicans on Capitol Hill, who still resent him for his handling of Filegate, Ruby Ridge, and the FBI crime-lab snafu (Shribman; Eleanor Clift, The McLaughlin Group ; Mara Liasson, Washington Week in Review ; Mark Shields, NewsHour ).
Then there's pseudonym , (false name), eponym (named for a person, e.g., sandwich after Lord Sandwich), and acronym (formed from the initial letters or syllables of a group of words, e.g., snafu meaning Situation Normal; All Fouled Up or laser meaning Light Amplification Stimulated Emissions Radiation).
Curious among the many curiosities in this entertaining work: the World War II coinage snafu gets only two and a half pages.
According to Wouk's footnote, as quoted by Mr. Horowitz, in modern Hebrew balagan has come to mean mess, foul-up, snafu, fiasco.
Camus Snafu