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This impression is hardly original; jails are full of people convinced that the legal system has misunderstood them. What sets Turow's opinion apart from run-of-the-mill sour grapes is what he has made of it: serious fictional portraits of the present moment, when moral authority is collapsing and the law has become, for better and worse, the sole surviving arena for definitions of acceptable behavior. Disputes that once might have been resolved by fisticuffs or a few intense minutes in the confessional or private negotiations between squabbling clans now tend to wind up as lawsuits...
...Quebec that is / politically sovereign but retains economic links with Canada "makes sense." Quebec, he complains, "is dying of ambiguity." Mulroney replaced Bouchard as his political lieutenant in Quebec with Industry Minister Benoit Bouchard (no relation), who said on national television that Quebec is "tired of being misunderstood." He warned, "What we have to understand is that this country is within four weeks of collapsing...
...landlady was gone a good while, but when she returned, she pretended she'd misunderstood Natasha. She had to be sent a second time. At last, several policemen appeared and led the "drunks" away...
...University officials responsible for the welfare of students--namely Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and the house masters--either misunderstood or received false information about the water situation. Jewett said he was told by the Environmental Health and Safety Office that Harvard had already tested the water (it hadn't) and found it safe (it wasn't). Leverett House Master John E. Dowling said he was told that the water had been safe for the past year (it wasn...
...which I was raised. After living for a year and a half at Harvard, away from the lifestyle I love, I was comforted by the sight of the flag. I placed it in my window with pride, but eventually learned that my flag had been totally misinterpreted and misunderstood by many...