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...stand, 9 out of 10 would not list a core. Of course, one or two would complain about Renaissance in Florence, for which the 20 required books may further add a financial pain. But, how do you compare this reading with that of frustrating Expos? Still, people continue to misunderstand the Core. The very reason may lie in the fact that it is forced onto students and we intuitively tend to hate...

Author: By Xiaomeng Tong, | Title: You Should Love the Core | 2/28/1995 | See Source »

...help the Boston Globe, the New York Times understand more about Islam," said Ahafi, who is originally from Libya. "They misunderstand Islam, because they do not know anything about Islam...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: Muslim Cantabrigians Find Permanent Home for Faith | 2/7/1995 | See Source »

...only after putting her in a hospital, where they could make sure she did not become pregnant. But some doctors give out prescriptions without telling patients of the danger, much less keeping them under observation. In other cases, the patients, who are often poor and barely literate, ignore or misunderstand what they are being told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thalidomide's Return | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

While America gave Rhinoceros its warmest reception anywhere, critics and audiences seemed to misunderstand it as light comedy. To Ionesco, it was a brutal metaphor for what happened in Romania under fascism and communism. In a journal dated "around 1940," he wrote, "The police are rhinoceroses. The judges are rhinoceroses. You are the only man among the rhinoceroses. The rhinoceroses wonder how the world could have been led by men. You yourself wonder: Is it true that the world was led by men?" The horror behind this question never left. Ionesco's jokes were those of nearly all the 20th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Fascism, Fury, Fear and Farce | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...have a lot of cultural materialists, Marxists, gender people who object to it because they think it's trying to indoctrinate," he says. "They misunderstand...

Author: By Bryan D. Garsten, | Title: A CAMPUS-WIDE SURVEY DISPUTED AT COLUMBIA | 3/11/1994 | See Source »

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