Word: astraye
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...world stage. Technocrats in Beijing can hardly hope to veil their foreign policies as well as they do their domestic ones. Political and economic success story that it is, China is a role model for scores of developing nations. Under the dual threats of setting those nations astray and losing its own international good standing, China therefore needs to change its Africa policy—and fast...
TIME's attempt to divert attention from Northwest's Captain Timothy Cheney and First Officer Richard Cole doesn't fly. Perhaps the entry-level pay grade for pilots could stand improvement, but the "system" was not in charge of the flight that went astray while the pilots lost track of where they were. Two officers, nominally in charge, abandoned their responsibilities and endangered the lives of more than 100 passengers and crew members...
...inspiration seems to be culled as much from the natural beauty of Sri Lanka as the sufferings of its people, who have endured 26 years of civil war. As an African American writer in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, Alexander sometimes goes astray in his characterization of the post-colonial experience, misguidedly evoking a universalized disposition in Africa as in South Asia. He transposes this affinity onto his narrator, who makes the reverse gesture: “I am Mahayana & of Africa / both Sri Lankan & non-Sri Lankan.” Alexander?...
...saying that QM doesn’t have a place in literature. On the contrary, I’m afraid that literature has not yet adequately engaged with some of our strangest and most delightful mysteries. Instead, it’s gone remarkably astray in the hopes creating spaces from which to exercise negative capability...
...more shortcuts we use. This is a good thing. People who have suffered brain damage that removes emotions from their calculations cannot function. They can't make decisions, even simple ones. So we need our emotions to make sense of the world. But our emotions also can lead us astray - particularly when we encounter an exception to a lifetime's worth of rules...