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...wanted to read the world and misread it, to write the world and unwrite it.... I wanted my work to form a union of aesthetics and ethics," she said...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Morisson Expounds on Race | 4/4/2001 | See Source »

Maybe some supreme being dimly remembered those orange "I agree with Kyle" T-shirts and misread the message. In any event, Wente's shot has been described as a miracle--by a dozen fans and sportswriters alike...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, | Title: Looking to the Rafters | 2/13/2001 | See Source »

...This year that would have been more than 2 million votes. The chaos, as we've learned in the past two weeks, extends to the counting process as well. In New Mexico, a 500-vote discrepancy was traced to a vote counter's sloppy handwriting: the number 620 was misread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Is This Any Way To Vote? | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...This is a time to honor the true will of the people... There is a simple reason that Florida law and the law in many other states calls for a careful check by real people of the machine results in elections like this one. The reason? Machines can sometimes misread or fail to detect the way ballots are cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Winning the P.R. Game? | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...Gore began with the usual boilerplate about how this was a test of democracy, and followed with a classic Gore-as-schoolteacher explanation of why machines sometimes make mistakes. ("Machines can sometimes misread or fail to detect the way ballots are cast...") He insisted that those mistakes can be caught in manual recounts, recounts that are "accepted far and wide as the best way to know the true intentions of the voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Gambit, Bush's Brush-Off | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

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