Word: misunderstand
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According to Robert McKenna, president of the Rhode Island Independent Higher Education Assistance Corporation, officials of many universities misunderstand the purpose of endowments, which were originally established to "protect the education of future generations...
Other wars, however, arise because the combatants misunderstand each other. That was true of Vietnam. The U.S. saw the Viet Cong as foot soldiers of an international army commanded by the Soviet Union and, in the crucial early years, by China...
...NATION'S HIGHEST COURT SHOWED LITTLE SYMpathy last week for Jose Tamayo- Reyes, a Cuban refugee accused of a barroom murder in Oregon. Tamayo-Reyes, who speaks little English, pleaded no contest in 1984 to manslaughter, but he later argued that a bad Spanish translation caused him to misunderstand what he was doing. After his lawyer erred by neglecting to present these crucial facts to an Oregon state appeals court, Tamayo-Reyes sought help from the federal court system, which has long heard legal appeals from state prisoners through a process known as a petition for writ of habeas corpus...
PLEASE don't misunderstand us. MAC rats support, indeed encourage, the popular pursuit of physical fitness at all levels of skill and interest, just as celebrated pianists might promote an appreciation of music among the general public. But never having taken piano lessons, I have no more a right to bang the keys in Paine Hall than the talker has to bang the weights...
Hegel, a great German philosopher whom I have been lucky enough to avoid reading, came up with the concept of dialectism. As I misunderstand it, Hegel sees a world with ideas in constant conflict: an original idea or state of existence (called the "thesis") automatically leads to the development of its own contradiction (called the "anitithesis"). The thesis and antithesis, after struggling with each other, form the "synthesis." Great Thinkers love this idea. Marx, Levi-Strauss an similar types found Great Truths in this idea of Hegel...