Word: misinterpretion
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...spirit to PBHA's relationship with Harvard. Instead of the hostility and antagonism that characterized our relationship in the past, there is a new sense of cooperation. In voicing my objections to the agreement, I do not want to seem the saboteur to this new team. People often misinterpret my dissension as a sign that I think PBHA should separate itself from the Harvard community. This is not the case. PBHA should remain nestled in the northwest corner of Harvard Yard for as long as possible; the issue here is whether or not PBHA will truly function as a human...
...Amato warned listeners not to misinterpret his admiration of the president's political savvy: "Let's make no mistake about it--this is not an endorsement for President Clinton...
...claimed he does not stay in character off the set, he says he constantly thinks about his characters after work. He said he becomes his characters, because "you can't fake emotion." (I started to wonder how much practice went into creating that superb air guitarist.) Lest I misinterpret his commitment to his characters, Cruise clarified, "That's not to say I go home and bite Nic's neck." (I felt like he was slowly letting me into his shell--first angst, now wit! Persistence was gradually paying...
Under pressure from conservative opponents to take a tougher stand on the ethnic Russian question, Boris Yeltsin bluntly warned the Estonians not to misinterpret "Russia's goodwill." Moscow, he pointed out, had "ways of reminding them" of geopolitical realities. The Kremlin has already put the withdrawal of former Soviet forces from Estonia on hold to protest local mistreatment of Russians...
...report, sent to Aspin on June 22, was in response to a series of questions raised by the principal director of Russian, Eurasian and East European affairs at the Defense Department. The inspector general's report described a few instances in which both Allison and Blackwill seemed to either misinterpret regulations or refer to conversations that others did not remember...