Word: misreads
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...authors, however, argued that their strip was being misread, as were their intentions. Chu wrote in the Advocate that the strip was autobiographical and that his and Burgess' hope was simply to "end up posted on doors in the math department...
...Unfortunately, Wolfe misread Hobbes' essential point. Manliness--as displayed in the brutal life of pre-civil society--is not an unmitigated good. In fact, it is the enemy of society, order, peace and of our own well-being. No one wants a brutish life. Hobbes writes that we all must give up our natural manly tendencies in order to attain some remnant of civilization. Pride is an obstacle to our own safety. In short, he recognizes that our boys may want to go hunting, but we need to trick them into self-restraint...
...questioners. On Jan. 20 in Iowa, the Texas Governor suffered through his own media grilling on the abortion issue, repeatedly refusing to say whether he would require his Supreme Court nominees to be pro-life and promising only to choose "strict constructionists" (a line that some moderates might misread but pro-life people see as a pledge for pro-life litmus tests). The reporters kept clamoring until Bush had had enough. Last week one of his campaign spokeswomen informed the media that the Governor wouldn't be holding any press conferences for a while. "It's not in our best...