Word: wronging
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...militant antiabortion protest, Auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan of New York recently warned that the state's Democratic Governor "is in danger of going to hell if he dies tonight" unless he changed his stance on abortion. Cuomo, a Roman Catholic, accepts his church's teaching that abortion is wrong. But he argues that it would be imprudent to impose his personal views on the state...
...think they're going in the right direction," said Eli Karsh '91. But Karsh, who said he would not buy a membership, said he felt that students' having to pay a fee was wrong. "I think that's heinous," he said. "It's an awful crime...
...conservatives and worshippers of the cult of the individual were wrong to forget the value of traditional notions of responsibility to our fellow humans. Communists were just as wrong to believe that this responsibility is incompatible with individual autonomy...
...Merrill (called the "Star-Spangled Baritone" for his ubiquity on the anthem- singing circuit) and the Johnny Mann Singers. But a taped version takes away the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat inherent in every live performance, as well as the singers' inalienable right to get it wrong. Country-and-western star Johnny Paycheck, crooning before Atlanta Falcons fans, faked his way through several lines: "Oh, say can you see, it's cloudy at night/ What so loudly we sang as the daylight's last cleaning." An immigrant Hungarian opera singer performing at a benefit showed Yankee ingenuity...
Writing a provocative newspaper column is an invitation to be egregiously wrong in public -- at least some of the time. Take the man who is America's best practitioner of the art of columny: succinctly melding fact and opinion in an unforgiving 770-word format. Even though in a parade of predictions in late 1988 he called the fall of the Berlin Wall, this Pulitzer-prizewinning pundit also flatly asserted last March that the Soviet Union would never brook Eastern Europe's attempts at independence. "Depend on Mr. Gorbachev to crack down as Mr. Stalin would have, fraternally rolling...