Word: misguidedness
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With Poisonwood still riding near the top of paperback charts, thanks at least in part to its June selection by the Oprah Book Club, here comes Kingsolver's new novel, Prodigal Summer (HarperCollins; 444 pages; $26), which is something of a return to the author's earlier form. It is...
The red ink resulted from the inexperience of Czech bankers and a misguided semiprivatization in which a percentage of shares in leading banks was distributed to citizens through vouchers. That approach produced a deadly cocktail of limited accountability and poor lending practices. The recent spate of bank sell-offs promises...
With "Poisonwood" still riding near the top of paperback charts, thanks at least in part to its June selection by the Oprah Book Club, here comes Kingsolver's new novel, "Prodigal Summer" (HarperCollins; 444 pages; $26), which is something of a return to the author's earlier form. It is...
Personal experience is no guarantee of deep insight or good teaching. And the misguided demand for authenticity, if played out, could easily lead to exclusive and homogenous academic departments--by that reasoning, a white person is as little qualified to teach African-American literature as a non-white person is...
Really, weep for that nebulous region of the country between Las Vegas and the Appalachian Mountains. It has produced a fine native son in William Painter Bohlen, morally upright, journalistically sound, but fundamentally misguided in matters of national importance.