Word: missteps
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...Brien understands the appeal of his story, its picaresque narrative spiked with trial and error, with mishap and misstep, with personal suffering and extraordinary triumph. He calls it his "rags-to-riches" tale, but having happily embarked on the riches phase, he politely wishes that everyone else would please just move on too. The decathlete is tired of what has become his 11th event, talking about his previous failings--the way he mysteriously flubbed the pole vault in the 1992 Olympic trials, thereby blowing his star turn in Barcelona; the way his college partying sometimes got the best...
...stabilizing influence in their lives. To go home to an abusive family, or to leave the support structure of friends that they have established in their House, would be disastrous. Thus, in a misguided and paternalistic attempt to somehow improve a student's life, the College could very well misstep and send someone "over the edge...
...sailing toward it. Washington assessing whether--and how--it might have to help Taiwan should the island be attacked by China. These are the most serious signals to date about the state of relations between the world's sole remaining superpower and its sole up-and-coming superpower. One misstep and one misperception after another in recent years have bumped the U.S. and China closer to crisis. The latest rupture has been triggered by China's harsh warning to Taiwan, underlined by war games offshore, that it must remain committed to eventual reunification and squelch whatever dreams of independence...
MORE RELIABLY THAN ANY MARKET ANALYST, EVERY STEP and misstep in the undiplomatic dance between Taiwan and Beijing can foretell major moves in the Taipei stock exchange. Last week, when the Hong Kong press reported that Chinese Premier Li Peng would announce a timetable for reunification in a key speech, share prices tumbled 3.5%, and the Taiwan dollar took a beating. The next day, when Li made no mention of this schedule, prices rebounded on a wave of buying...
...news for the Dole campaign, which is counting on Buchanan to challenge Forbes for second place. For his part, Forbes stumbled Friday when he accused GOP rivals of misrepresenting his positions and said the Christian Coalition "does not speak for most Christians." The Forbes remarks could be a crucial misstep in a state where the Christian Coalition is stuffing voters guides into church programs this Sunday. Dole was quick to take advantage: "Maybe establishment politicians like Steve Forbes and Bill Clinton are uncomfortable with religious conservatives," he said. "They think people of faith have no place in politics but they...