Word: mistakenness
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...mother has been telling me for a long time to give it all up and come home," he quipped. But anyone who believes the ex-President is going to slip quietly away to a dacha to write his memoirs or putter about in the garden could be seriously mistaken. "My role is changing, but I am not leaving the political scene," ; Gorbachev announced. "I have big plans...
...institutions I was proposing, would be a better way. But unfortunately we've already shattered the links among the republics, and the national economy is collapsing. An amorphous commonwealth won't bring about the kind of cooperation we need, which is why I think it's a mistaken concept. But I want to make it a half-mistake rather than a full mistake...
...Crime, we give Wite-Out for when we're mistaken...
...confession stands: white folks have been gobbling up the welfare budget while blaming someone else. But it's worse than that. If we look at Social Security, which is another form of welfare, although it is often mistaken for an individual insurance program, then whites are the ones who are crowding the trough. We receive almost twice as much per capita, for an aggregate advantage to our race of $10 billion a year -- much more than the $3.9 billion advantage African Americans gain from their disproportionate share of welfare. One sad reason: whites live an average of six years longer...
Although the military claimed that the agents had been mistaken for drug smugglers, mounting evidence indicated that the soldiers were at the airstrip not to capture the smugglers -- both of whom escaped -- but to protect them. Last week an investigation by Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights, aided by videotapes of the scene taken by U.S. Customs agents flying overhead, concluded that the local regional commander, General Alfredo Moran Acevedo, bore the major responsibility for the deaths. Arriving at the scene with reinforcements, after receiving at least two telephone warnings that his men were shooting at drug agents...