Word: wronged
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Carlene Carter: I Fell in Love (Reprise). A world-beater album sung by a woman whose voice, with its leathery delicacy, can handle tunes of hard traveling and wrong-turn loving with equal finesse. If country music is still a man's game, Carter is effortlessly bending the rules...
Most Disappointing Peek Through a Looking Glass If you get the wrong prescription at the local vision center, you can just go back and have it changed. Not so for NASA, whose incorrect prescription is spinning around the earth in the Hubble Space Telescope. Because a mirror was ground to the wrong shape, the space agency was saddled with a $1.5 billion instrument that performs far below expectations...
...later Shevardnadze was named Foreign Minister and Gorbachev's partner in perestroika. The appointment struck the world's chanceries as odd -- the Georgian was a provincial politician with no experience in world affairs -- and as an indication that Gorbachev intended to be his own Foreign Minister. That assessment was wrong. In reality, the two planned together to tame the country's adventurist foreign policy and make it the servant of domestic needs...
...decision was potent, and educators reacted accordingly. "This is an example of something that in the abstract looks like good principle but that results in horrible policy," says Robert Zemsky, director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. "It is the wrong message at the wrong time." Even the White House was distancing itself from the policy, pointing out that it came from the bowels of the Education Department. At week's end President Bush called for a review of the decision...
...from its lawyers. Other institutions were more defiant. The American Council on Education, a lobbying and research organization, told its 1,800 member colleges and universities to ignore the opinion. Declared Florida Atlantic's Catanese: "We are not going to adhere to this directive because we think it is wrong...