Word: misunderstoodness
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...into politics. In its newly published biography of Kerry, the Boston Globe reports that in 1984, Kerry went back and changed an answer on a questionnaire from nuclear-freeze advocates so he could boost his 94% rating and match the perfect score of his opponent. He said he had misunderstood the question...
...Sierra Leone, Papua New Guinea and the Congo. Indonesia's legal system gets particularly low marks. In an IMF-sponsored report, a panel of Indonesian lawyers recently studied 500 bankruptcy cases in the country since 1998 and determined that about 30% of all verdicts were incorrect, either because judges misunderstood the law or disregarded it. Foreign bankers and investors often have trouble enforcing contracts in Indonesian courts. In one case, a court last year nullified a $180 million loan made by a syndicate of foreign lenders to property developer Danareksa Jakarta International to construct the Jakarta Stock Exchange building, saying...
...airborne transmission of infectious disease has long been misunderstood and hospitals should take stronger measures to prevent it, according to an article co-authored by a Harvard lecturer in yesterday’s New England Journal of Medicine...
...second Burton myth is that his mind is still trapped in the eremitic universe of that darkened bedroom. Evidence includes his lavish re-creations of '60s pop trifles (Batman, Mars Attacks! and Planet of the Apes) as well as more personal films (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood) that center on misunderstood emotional savants with a likeness to a certain director...
...force of indefatigable buoyancy; Finney's son, played by Billy Crudup, believes his father is just an indefatigable liar. Big Fish is rooted in a conflicted adult world, and for the first time in a Tim Burton film, it is the parent--not the child--who is whimsical and misunderstood...