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Lifting rent regulations would benefit the very people who wrongheadedly support controls.

Of course, this can be done wrongheadedly.

Both have been compared, wrongheadedly, to Woody Allen, but a taste for one does not translate to the other.

Authorities responded by unseating many university and Government officials whom they accused of having wrongheadedly led students to clamor for democracy.

Their judgments sometimes were sought out by Administration policy makers seeking to thwart policies they believed wrongheadedly anti-Soviet.

Why is the Bush Administration so wrongheadedly determined to see that Japan send troops overseas for the first time since World War II?

But the race track can be wonderful, ever sunny and green and wrongheadedly hopeful, which is why the dentists will come as long as you don't brush properly.

Predictably, the English film director failed miserably a couple of years ago, wrongheadedly reducing the universal to the specific, the otherworldly to the mundane, and there seemed little reason to expect more of the American choreographer.

Mr. Aldiss's gift for war narrative has not faded, and neither has his talent for polemical prose: Joseph's case for dropping the atomic bomb is lucidly (though I think wrongheadedly) argued.

At the same time, he is firm in his opposition to American foreign policy, arguing today as he has since the days of the 1979 revolution, that the United States wrongheadedly supported Israel and meddled where it should not.

Squeezed between rising demands for care and soaring costs, and fearful that Congress will act too slowly or wrongheadedly on whatever the President finally recommends next month, states are determined to go ahead on their own to improve matters.

That official media heavy had said he considered open hearings a mistake, said he would submit written questions in private - "one of them which is extremely sensitive" - and then (wrongheadedly) stalked off to fiddle with Senate ethics.

David Bintley's choreography for the waltz in Act I is a bit too heel-and-toe for a classical entry and he wrongheadedly includes a mazurka step in the polonaise at the end of this act.

The chances are that Mr. Merchant, Mr. Ivory and Mrs. Jhabvala will again be accused of rampant Masterpiece Theaterism, but never will that charge have been more loosely and wrongheadedly entered.

Raj's Canadian wife, Jan, is so consistently and wrongheadedly cold toward his Casaquemadan family that she becomes - to an extent far greater than the book's argument about island warmth and North American coldness demands - hateful.

To the Editor: Why is The New York Times wrongheadedly determined that sending troops abroad for United Nations peacekeeping operations is the same as sending troops abroad in a traditional sense ("Japan's Better Example," editorial, April 20)?

To the Editor: In her review of David S. Reynolds's new biography, "John Brown, Abolitionist" (April 17), Barbara Ehrenreich virtually lauds Brown's murderous violence (which she wrongheadedly refuses to label terrorism) against noncombatants and even nonslaveholders as proportionate to the "monstrous provocation" of slavery.