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...praise the staff gives Bok also misses the mark. To see evidence of the "good liberal" in Bok in his defense of Harvard against Allan D. Bloom and against federal budget cuts is to misread the President's motives. He obviously has a vested interest in maintaining federal subsidies for higher education and in retaining the prestige of his university. Such defense means nothing more than that Bok is a shrewd politician...
While these events are clear, it appears that the letter commenting on them submitted by Morris Rattner and me does not lend itself to such clear reading. Or so it would seem by the way in which the Crimson staff editorial misread...
...trespassing hacker is just one of the problems that can bring a computer system to its knees. Technicians were installing extra disk drives in an underground computer in Tulsa last May when they triggered a collapse of American Airlines' SABRE reservation system. Last September a Parisian computer creatively misread magnetic labels on 41,000 traffic-violation files and began charging delinquent motorists with crimes ranging from murder and drug trafficking to prostitution. A fire in a Tokyo utility tunnel several years ago wiped out circuits connecting Mitsubishi Bank's mainframe computers with branch offices, shutting down automated-teller machines across...
Since it's too hard to believe that Blumenthal could misread or mishear this badly, I can only conclude that he thinks his readers are illiterate and/or deaf. Well, we're not. We recognize a misquote when we see it, and we recognize a mud-slinging at our collective character when we read...
Such impressive results gave Dukakis a presidential aura. This reasoning was faulty, explains state Senator David Locke, a member of the state Republican leadership: "Dukakis' success was camouflaged. He couldn't lose. He ran against an absolutely jinxed campaign, candidate and platform. [The results] were misread absolutely...