Word: misunderstanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unpublished texts and who has them. In addition, the magazine will call for access to photographs of all scrolls for interested researchers, who have been kept waiting for decades. Team members contend that this would violate their scholarly rights and that without the analysis of seasoned experts, outsiders would misunderstand what they read...
First, raise my taxes. Under the current tax law, the top federal income- tax bracket is 28%, but above $43,150 (or $71,900 for joint returns) it effectively rises to 33% for a while and then drops back to 28%. Don't misunderstand. I love paying just 28%. (And at 28%, I pay a heck of a lot more than I ever did when the top rate was higher, because, far from trying anything stupid to shelter my income from taxes, I'm quite happy to send the Government its share.) But keeping the top rate at 33% instead...
...again, alive or dead. For Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton) in The Good Mother, the outcome is not quite so cruel: she faces losing custody of her daughter Molly, but not the child's death. Yet both mothers find themselves in court, desperately defending themselves against society's determination to misunderstand their motives, to turn tormented consciences into legally guilty ones...
...head west to El Paso the next day, I think about why these dances are so rare and why both sides seem to misunderstand each other so deeply. "Neither of us ever hears what the other is saying," Octavio Paz once wrote. "Or if we do hear, we always think the other was saying something else." The roots of the two cultures are so deep and gnarled by time that it is not just language that cuts a deep scar across the continent...
Bush does not even mention Team B in his autobiography. I asked why. "I didn't think of it. Glad to talk about it. I think it was a very worthwhile exercise. Many people misunderstand what the exercise was. It was about challenging the objectivity of the Government -- how objective is it, or how subjective is it. Get two teams -- one of internal people, one of external people -- give each the same information, and do they reach the same conclusion? No. That's why I answer my question as I did -- how do you measure intentions? It is very difficult...