Word: misunderstand
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...cannot deny that politics has become too complex for the non-specialist. The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful health-care reform bill may lie in a few paragraphs buried deep in a thousand-page text, paragraphs that even an intelligent, motivated, and honest citizen might miss or misunderstand. It has gotten to the point that even politicians cannot be expected to read the bills that come before them, so that they farm the work out to aides and advisors who have more time and a greater inclination to develop an informed opinion...
...telling change of attitudes on the streets of Tegucigalpa. The leftist protesters are praising the U.S., which they normally would consider an evil empire, and urging it to help them restore Zelaya. Meanwhile, those in the halls of power grumble that the world is treating them unfairly. "Foreign governments misunderstand our situation," Congressman Juan Orlando tells TIME. "Once they learn that this was really a legal change of power, they will change their position." Yet it could be tough to persuade the international community of the legality of exiling a President at the barrel of a gun. (See pictures...
...doubt, Iran will come out of last Friday's election a different country. But it would serve us well to put aside our prism that has led us to misunderstand Iran for so many years, an anticipation that there would be a liberal counter-revolution in the country. Mousavi is far from the liberal democrat that many in the West would like to believe he is. The truth is, Ahmadinejad may be the President the Iranians want, and we may have to live with an Iran to Iranians' liking and not to ours. (See pictures of Ahmadinejad's supporters...
...shape-shifter, its contours twisted by politics, culture, timing and the very language pollsters use when they ask people how they feel. So when the folks at Gallup announced that, for the first time, more Americans are pro-life than pro-choice, there were all kinds of ways to misunderstand what that means...
...discovered for that “first time” that blasting the same Girl Talk demo CD for three hours is actually really fun. I would never have known either of these things without making the trip there and back in one day.Do not misunderstand me. Watching a game at the Lydah Arena is a sporting experience unlike any other. Covering the game itself, one in which Harvard unfortunately lost 2-1, was a memorable experience. It let me see the Crimson skate against one of the most tenacious offenses in the league and witness the intensity...