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...Report Mistaken Your story "General Command," about the political situation in Bangladesh, cites an April International Crisis Group report alleging that in January 2007, the U.S. secretly urged the Bangladesh military to intervene in politics [June 30]. If the author of this story had contacted the Embassy, we would have let him know that this is simply not true. The U.S. Government has been consistent in its message that Bangladesh should be governed by leaders chosen by the people of Bangladesh in free, fair and transparent elections. This was our message before the declaration of the state of emergency...
...having problems with balance, tremors or dementia. About a third of the audience members shot their hands into the air. Within a few years, a newly recognized genetic disorder called FXTAS (fragile X--associated tremor, ataxia syndrome) was part of the literature, though the illness is still often mistaken for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or Lou Gehrig's disease...
...centuries long case of mistaken identity, we've finally rounded up another suspect. The June 11 discovery of a one-year-old, one-horned deer may put Bambi in the company of the rhinoceros, the narwhal and the oryx as creatures who spawned the enduring myth of the unicorn...
...College’s renovations were “intense, but they were intensely mistaken,” Bossert said last week. Bossert can recount anecdote after anecdote in which he worked with his wife and John B. Fox Jr. ’59, then-dean of the College, to directly counter these negative changes, like when the three stopped a gun-tractor from destroying a decorative row of bricks on the second floor of Lowell...
Simon's most renowned book is 2002's The Innocents, which depicts exonerated death-row inmates. Both works could serve social--even political--ends, but Simon insists she should not be mistaken for a photojournalist, and her old-style technique indeed argues that she is not. She works with a large-format camera and will wait all day for the perfect shot rather than shoot multiple rolls and edit her film later. The process earns her trust and access. "I can't be sneaky," she says. The result of that openness is frank pictures, straightforwardly taken--and as a consequence...