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...think that Versity is dramatically misunderstood. We are focused on being a learning center," not a path-of-least-resistance for students too lazy to wake up for lectures, Berman says. "But if it's used properly, we can create a great product. And that's clearly what we're trying...

Author: By Graeme C. A. wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professors Call Online Service for Class Notes Dishonest | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...religion in America, Islam is easily misunderstood, and the media has not shown sufficient care in delineating between politics and religion in its coverage of the Muslim world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Listen closely, though, and you can hear undercurrents of tension: black kids complaining about being misunderstood by white teachers and singled out as troublemakers; black parents worrying that their children are held to lower academic standards; white teachers whispering about undisciplined, unmotivated black students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wednesday: 6:15 A.M. The Early Bus | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Tokaimura is a town that should be ready for nuclear accidents. It is home to 15 nuclear power facilities and has had three other nuclear accidents in the past four years. Yet three fire fighters who answered an emergency call at the plant misunderstood the reason. They thought someone was having an epileptic seizure and so didn't wear protective clothing. The Tokaimura town office didn't find out about the accident for almost an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Japan Syndrome | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...book Pat Buchanan tells us what he would have done if he'd been President when Nazi Germany was waging war on England and France: Nothing. Adolf Hitler, he insists, was somewhat misunderstood. The Nazis only wanted to move east into Russia and Eastern Europe--which posed no threat to U.S. interests--until we got them all riled up. The Holocaust? A bad thing, certainly, but not the kind of problem that should drag a nation into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pat Buchanan | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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