Word: misreadings
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...music, soccer, video games and hanging out in the hood. The emotional climax of the film comes when, angered by the behavior of two of his female students, who sit on a sort of school governing board, he tells them they're acting like "skanks." They deliberately misread his remark - no he didn't actually call them a bad name, which they take to be a synonym for "whores" - but it doesn't matter. There's a classroom confrontation with an African student who rises to their defense, blood is accidentally spilled and the boy is threatened with expulsion - which...
...Looking ahead to 2008 and 2009, inflation will also be on target. And we will never return to the old boom and bust." Thus Gordon Brown, as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his Budget statement only last year. No Chancellor since the war has quite so disastrously misread the economic situation, or so fundamentally misunderstood the inescapable nature of market economies - namely, that the greater the binge, the greater the hangover. Today, Britain is on the brink of recession, inflation has jumped to 4.7%, the housing bubble has burst, and mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley has just been nationalized...
...tend to make mistakes. In particular, they identify fearful expressions as angry, confused or sad. By following the same kids year after year, Yurgelun-Todd has been able to watch their brain-activity pattern - and their judgment - mature. Fledgling physiology, she believes, may explain why adolescents so frequently misread emotional signals, seeing anger and hostility where none exists. Teenage ranting ("That teacher hates me!") can be better understood in this light...
...power of the strongest brand name in Democratic politics. It made sense, given who she is and the additional doubts that some voters might have about making a woman Commander in Chief. But in putting her focus on positioning herself to win the general election in November, Clinton completely misread the mood of Democratic-primary voters, who were desperate to turn the page. "Being the consummate Washington insider is not where you want to be in a year when people want change," says Barack Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod. Clinton's "initial strategic positioning was wrong and kind...
TIME: Why, then, have we misread those verses...