Word: misinterpretations
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people…will say that a lot of people on campus have secret ambitions to be president,” said Colin J. Motley ’10, Caleb’s successor as president of the Harvard Republican Club. He thinks Harvard kids from the Northeast misinterpret Caleb’s Texas good manners as smarminess. “It’s more of people trying to fit the office to Caleb than Caleb trying to fit himself to the office,” Colin said. “People project what they want on people...
...months. Yet Iceland never defaulted on a single loan, signaling a disconnect between foreign perception and domestic reality. "We learned our lesson: we need to tell our story," says Árni Mathiesen, Iceland's Minister of Finance. "Other people are more likely to tell the wrong story or misinterpret...
...still violence; there's still some traces of al-Qaeda; Iran has influence more than we would like. But if we had the current status quo and yet our troops had been drawn down to 30,000, would we consider that a success?" Crocker, semi-speechless, chose to misinterpret the question, saying a precipitous drawdown to 30,000 troops would be disastrous. But Obama's question was more diabolical. He was saying, Hey, al-Qaeda's on the run, and Iran is probably more interested in harassing the U.S. military than having another war with Iraq. How much better does...
...Some misinterpret his steadfastness for pig-headedness and point to his dismissal of certain staff members as a mark of arrogance. Yet, as persistent—and insistent—as Rudy was as mayor, he always listened to staff input and avoided making knee-jerk decisions. When addressing issues that plagued the city, he always made sure to approach challenges “correctly” rather than “rapidly.” The results are evident. We have no doubt the same will be true of his presidency...
...popularity of the show amongst his friends. “I have blockmates who think it’s their favorite thing I do all year,” he says. To overstate the extent to which the members of SGCT plan out their performances though, is to completely misinterpret their mindset, they say. “It’s a low-commitment, low-stress thing,” says Hoagland. “We put the show together a couple of weeks beforehand and probably half the cast this year is in another show the same weekend...