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...felt Larry was wrong," says a former Treasury colleague of theirs. Geithner, moreover, has far better political fingertips. "He's the guy who'd say to Larry, 'Look, maybe you don't want to say that men are smarter than women in just this way. You might be misunderstood,' " this colleague says, referring to the imbroglio that cost Summers his job as president of Harvard...
...only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished...Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant? People who played against me called me cocky, but my teammates didn't. I brought attention, fear. I wanted to beat you in the worst way. If that made me cocky, so be it." - On his reputation, Baseball Digest...
...restraint in this gesture which can become exaggerated and cause a certain distraction in the assembly before the reception of Communion." It may now be moved earlier in the service. Cardinal Francis Arinze, head of the Vatican's liturgical office, said last month that the affectionate gesture is often misunderstood. "It is thought to be a chance to shake hands with friends. Instead it is a way to tell those nearby that the peace of Christ, really present on the altar, is also with...
...would be fanciful to draw too many comparisons between the voters of Gaza and the West Bank and those in the United States. But it is clear that in 2004 much of the world simply misunderstood what was happening in America and underestimated the forces which led to President Bush’s re-election. Perhaps we were all looking in the wrong place...
...drinking / ’Cause it don’t hurt when I’m drunk.” Emotional immaturity is one of the album’s major unintentional themes, along with self-centeredness and the whiny frustration of the “misunderstood.” On songs called “Who Do You Think You Are?” and “Wrong About Me,” Dennen sounds like a sneering, snotty seven-year-old. “Wrong About Me” is followed by a song called...