Word: mistaken
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...staff's knee-jerk reaction to the uncovering of severe racism at Texaco wrongly calls for the University to divest should Harvard not be able to clear the oil company of its tarnished name. In so doing, a mistaken question is posed: The issue is not whether Texaco's executives have institutionalized racism there (they have), but how Harvard can most effectively combat that racism...
Although conspicuous in their tuxedos, the singers suffered a case of mistaken identity the last time they sang for the Celtics...
...royal lineages of the two presidential candidates (Oct. 28). The story explained that, according to Burke's Peerage, President Clinton was more likely to win the election than Senator Dole because Clinton had more royal blood in him. Harold Brooks-Baker, the editor at Burke's, is completely mistaken about this...
...what of those British who weren't in Hamlet? Nunn corralled most of them--Ben Kingsley, Helena Bonham Carter, Nigel Hawthorne--for his Twelfth Night. A comedy of Eros about loving twins separated in a shipwreck and embroiled in a game of mistaken sexual identity, the piece now begins as an upmarket Blue Lagoon, veers into elaborate farce, then darkens till it seems a lost work of Chekhov's. It's a handsome artifact, though, on its $5 million budget, and gives star treatment to Imogen Stubbs, who is Nunn's wife. "It's a welcome break from the American...
When dinosaurs ruled the earth, Quetzalcoatlus and its cousins dominated the skies. Yet ever since their fossils were first discovered in the 1700s and mistaken for strange marine creatures or bats, pterosaurs--literally, winged lizards--have remained a perplexing enigma. Did these extraordinary beasts take off by running on the ground or by dropping from a tree? Did they energetically flap their wings or deploy them as passive sails? Did they, like seabirds, nurture their young in large colonies, or did they lead a solitary life...