Word: misreadings
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...marked-up, highlighted and dog-eared copy of the legal writings of Lani Guinier. It was far too late for him to emerge undamaged from her nomination to be Assistant Attorney General for civil rights, but he hoped to find that the views of his nominee had been misread. Gradually and reluctantly, he came to the conclusion that even if some of them had been, his beliefs and Guinier's could not be reconciled. When he huddled in late afternoon with top advisers, the question was no longer what to do but how to do it. Guinier, who had been...
...Misread Signs...
...Saddam expected to get away with seizing Kuwait and that Washington was startled by his decision to embark on this wild course. Both miscalculations were serious failures of U.S. policy: it was a tactical error not to lay down Day-Glo markers around Kuwait and a strategic one to misread Saddam's expansionist goals...
...take 10 years at least. Kohl said there would be no new taxes, but the government enacted stiff "unity surcharges" on income taxes last year. He promised to control inflation, the economic hobgoblin of postwar Germany, yet it is running higher than 4%. Last week Kohl seemed to misread the public mood, blithely dismissing the labor unrest as "no real crisis...
Counter apologized for those who felt "discomfort" because they misread the letter--not for the specifics of the letter itself. But these were not "misunderstandings" on our part. His refusal to acknowledge and retract the racially charged elements of his letter again raises doubts about his sensitivity...