Word: mistakenness
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...fight. Their spokesmen point daily to encouraging signs: last week it was word of soldiers' desertions and scattered antiwar protests inside Yugoslavia. Allied military briefers called the strife the most interesting battle damage they have seen in weeks. Belgrade, spared bombing for days in the wake of the mistaken attack on Beijing's mission, is once again blackened by flames from allied fire...
...director Roger Michell (Persuasion) allow to develop confidently, digressively. William, for example, finds himself obliged to pretend he's a journalist for a fox-hunting magazine interviewing all those connected with Anna's latest release, a horseless sci-fi epic, at a press junket. On another occasion, he's mistaken for the room-service waiter and patronized by her movie-star boyfriend (a funny, uncredited Alec Baldwin, trying hard for noblesse oblige and delightfully missing the note...
...military influence abroad. The U.S., on the other hand, is a status quo power that wants to impose its political ideals on other countries. Despite the oft-voiced desire for "partnership" between the two nations, it seems that there is little for them to agree on. While the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was, in and of itself, a minor incident, it has removed the Band-Aids that had been applied to cover this gaping wound in the U.S.-China relationship. Good relations with China are a legitimate and worthy goal; however, unless they are based...
Jerry Ruiz '00 applied for the Mainstage this spring with a show that is unlikely to be mistaken for another...
Meanwhile, more than an apology is owed to the families of the embassy bombing victims. Reparations should be made in order to show that NATO truly feels remorse over its mistaken actions. You can't bomb a friend's building and just walk away saying, "We're sorry." Barbara E. Martinez...