Word: mistakenness
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...Orleans, famously fought after the Treaty of Ghent—which formally ended the war—is chronicled with each spectacular and likely little-known detail. Jackson, feeling the constraints of his small army, even sent a proclamation to black recruiters, saying, “Through a mistaken policy, you have heretofore been deprived of a participation in the glorious struggle for national rights in which your country is engaged—this no longer shall exist. As sons of freedom you are now called upon to defend your most inestimable blessing...
...admit to? A brief period of silence might be in order, followed by a bit of ideological spring cleaning. If this big idea has turned out to be wrong, isn't it possible that some of their other ideas are also wrong? In fact, maybe their whole philosophy is mistaken. Perle and Adelman are both neoconservatives, or neocons, a group that prides itself on being tough-minded and pragmatic while rejecting liberals as soft and romantic. Yet they managed to turn a President who was elected on a promise to eschew nation building into Woodrow Wilson in cowboy boots, promising...
...didn’t give us any entitlement. It started with what we did on the court, and we obviously didn’t live up to the hype.”Harvard will begin its attempt to overcome the loss of quality personnel and prove the pollsters were mistaken at home versus Maine on Saturday. In addition to returning starters Cusworth, Housman and captain-elect Goffredo, the Crimson is expected to go with sophomore Andrew Pusar at the three guard and sophomore Evan Harris at power forward.“The gap between [Pusar and Harris] and any people...
...Louisville. Despite the city's location just spitting distance from the Bible Belt - and directly across the river from conservative, rural Southern Indiana - voters veered leftward in picking an unabashed liberal to replace a popular and well-entrenched conservative Republican congresswoman. Indeed, no one in this city has ever mistaken Democrat John Yarmuth - founder and former editor of an alternative newspaper called Louisville Eccentric Observer - as a centrist, much less a conservative...
...Increasingly, however, there is reason to believe that conventional wisdom is mistaken. Granted, young people are disillusioned, but this hardly distinguishes them from the rest of the population. President George W. Bush’s approval ratings are consistently low, and according to Newsweek over half of adults now believe the country is on the wrong track. But instead of letting dissatisfaction give way to apathy, youth are realizing that simply ignoring politics is not the answer. Indeed, a new poll of youth nationwide by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) survey group found that 71 percent...