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...seems an ideal villain. It can replicate any person it touches and annihilate its victim with a slash of its rapier limbs: Cyborg Scissorarms. We eagerly await the moment when the T-1000 touches Arnold and puts into play two of the movies' oldest, most effective tricks. Mistaken identity! Evil twins...
...complicated way in which Americans have assessed the meaning of victory has led to some confusion about their feelings. The outpouring of relief that erupted when the fighting ended, for example, was first mistaken for euphoria and is now at times wrongly taken for chest-pounding superpatriotism. In fact, there were many reasons for the mood of celebration, and most of them are laudable...
...chance to put behind them a war that came by surprise, and mercifully ended before it could create a new generation of martyrs. It is because their sons and daughters were spared that people will line the streets while the soldiers pass by, but that should not be mistaken for gloating, or amnesia, or indifference to the suffering that continues in the shadow...
Under the microscope of the General Accounting Office, the University has admitted to making $500,00 of mistaken or questionable billings to the government for overhead on research at the Medical School. Now, the federal 'indirect cost' inquiry has engulfed nearly 300 schools...
...country. Recently, though, as Bernander drove north of Sulaymaniyah to inspect the treatment of Kurdish refugees there, gunmen ambushed the five-car convoy. They hit three cars with gunfire, but the occupants miraculously suffered only a few glass splinters. The assailants, it turned out, were Kurdish guerrillas who had mistaken the U.N. delegates for Iraqi government officials. After appropriating one of the vehicles, the guerrillas apologized for shooting and sent the envoys on their...