Word: mistakenness
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Jumbled among these elements is the trial of John Demjanjuk, the retired Cleveland autoworker accused of being Ivan the Terrible, the notorious Nazi guard at Treblinka. Roth attends the trial in the beginning to find Pipik, but he gets so caught up in the idea of mistaken identity that he begins to go out of sheer interest. Roth jumbles in more characters--the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld (who actually exists); his cousin Apter, a slow-witted artist and Holocaust survivor (who doesn't): George Ziad, an old graduate school friend who is now a militant Palistinian living on the West...
Maybe the tears would be better shed for local TV news. These Action and Eyewitness news gangs have never exactly been mistaken for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. But increasingly -- and especially during the ratings-sweeps months of November, February and May -- they are becoming little more than extensions of the network prime-time schedule. Stories that spin off network programming have been around for years, but now they are a depressing cottage industry. Networks alert stations to promotable programming and suggest possible tie- ins; stories done by one station are fed to a central network clearinghouse so that other affiliates...
...those who never invested any hope in Ronald Reagan and George Bush, and who now are withholding that investment from Bill Clinton, must start to ask themselves what hope they hold for American democracy. Are they going to spend their entire lives sneering for fear of a mistaken swoon? For liberals especially, Clinton is something of a last chance -- and an unexpected chance at that. Under these circumstances, hope seems almost prudent...
...passed, criminals will still obtain weapons In addition, since even the staunchest firearm restriction does not completely trample on the Second Amendment simple handguns will always remain legal to obey the all laws in acquiring weapons, they would still be able to carry handguns And, if I'm not mistaken, even simple handguns are deadly. Nothing is more frustrating than legislation which continues to hurts the very people it proclaims to help...
...Bill Clinton thinks he is going to get the public ear about taxes or health care during this next few weeks, he is mistaken. A congressional aide confesses the three sets in his boss's office are on CNN, C-Span and March Madness. There is no contest. Let the country pause...