Word: wrongfully
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...knew that one wrong moment and we’d fall off the cliff,” he said...
...don’t know.”“Do you want some milk?”“OK.”The chatter on the TV was overshadowed by the volume of my Mom’s silence.“Is there something wrong, Mom?”“No, everything’s fine.”Again, the silence was too powerful.“I have to find a new job, that’s all.”“Oh.”We?...
...military service because of a law they have no control over, Harvard should be working to foster a return to the spirit of service that once defined its graduates. If the university truly believes Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is “deeply wrong,” then it is free to lobby Congress and the president. It is free to encourage its professors to speak out. It is even free to reject all federal funding in the name of a higher principle...
...note to call his own, lying in an empty parking lot, one with the universe. He was lying on his back in the lot, in spot number twenty-eight (because even at night, some things are random), watching the stars. He was wondering what happened if something sang the wrong note, if the natural rhythm were to be interrupted. How could anomalies exist in a world of patterns? He shuddered at the thought of imperfections. What if he was a mistake? It could be that what he called a mistake was just a new piece of the pattern. Egomaniacal perhaps...
...There were mistakes made. There were dozens and even hundreds of mistakes made, but never for the wrong reasons, because the focus needed to be shifted. It needed to be taken away from what adults wanted for their employment to what children needed for their education. That's going to lead to lots of tensions and conflicts." - on the controversy that accompanied his tenure as San Diego school superintendent (San Diego Union-Tribune...