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...parents, the Catholic League and other religious groups will protest, especially over the video in which an offscreen male voice tells a girl standing alone that she's pretty and not to be nervous. Promise to withdraw the ads with an Orwellian statement about how your "positive message" was "misunderstood" and garner tons of free media exposure. Then watch your jeans, which most teens wouldn't have been caught dead in a few months ago, become black-market subversive overnight...
Ralph Waldo Emerson's statement "To be great is to be misunderstood" was made for Dole. For that reason, it was nice to read your balanced report about him. After studying Dole for years, I'm ready to follow the man across the Pacific in a leaky rowboat. JAKE M. COLLINS Rochester, New Hampshire...
...would be a lot more convincing if Stone would contribute to charity the multimillion dollar profits the movie earned last year. Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, whose company produced Natural Born Killers and has put out much of the most offensive music, says that rappers like Ice-T are misunderstood: when Ice-T chants "Die, die, die, pig, die," he is not really advocating cop killing, but trying to put us in touch with the "anguished" mind of someone who feels this...
...week afterPresident George Bush's highly public resignation from the National Rifle Association, the NRA is sheepishly backing away from the fundraising letter that outraged Bush,describing federal agents as "jack-booted thugs."Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has apologized for the letter, saying that his harsh words were misunderstood and were not intended to apply to all federal law enforcement officials. "That letter was intended to apply to a number of specific cases where we thought the government's conduct was improper," LaPierre said. "We're very pro-law enforcement."TIME senior Washington correspondent Jeff Birnbaumsays LaPierre...
...difference between the responses is a fundamental one; but it is frequently misunderstood outside of the computer world. The name on the front of the computer's case is simply the name of the company that put the computer together. A CPU is the single-chip brain of modern personal computers that performs the most basic computer operations, like addition or multiplication...