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...brought in the customers? Well, Coulouras says that while the restaurant is sometimes mistaken for a florist's, it's never mistaken for an official Harvard establishment...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: A Place Called Harvard...What's in a Name? | 11/21/1992 | See Source »

...Vietnam. Although the materials Brown (code-named Druid Smoke) eventually delivered in many cases duplicated Schweitzer's, the two sources confirmed each other. "Anyone who thinks there's a big museum in Hanoi where you can back up a C-130 and answer all the POW/MIA questions is mistaken," said Schweitzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth at Last | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

...been very impressed with how Michel looks out there in practice," Tomassoni said. "I guess we've been mistaken all along because it looks like his natural position...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Questions Looming For Icemen Tonight | 10/30/1992 | See Source »

...Iceman's equipment revealed an unexpected degree of sophistication. His copper ax was initially mistaken by Spindler as evidence that the find dated from the Bronze rather than the Neolithic Age. But the blade turned out to be nearly pure copper, not bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stone Age Iceman | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...distrust of the police is also exacerbated by cases of mistaken identity. When suspects are described as Black the police are more likely to stop and question, teenagers say. "Some of them get stopped just because they're Black. If the kid fits the description, he's going to be stopped," Detective Franklin says...

Author: By June Shih, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Black Teens Charge Police With Harassment | 10/14/1992 | See Source »

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