Word: delusional
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Concern comes early this year. Last week a homeless woman walked into the Wall Street office of a currency-trading firm and shot the owner dead. In August she had been released from a mental hospital. Police say she was under the delusion that she was a partner in the...
Fraudulence and self-delusion are strong themes in Wolff's work, as they are in books by his brother, Geoffrey Wolff, whose Bad Debts and The Duke of Deception deal with the misdeeds of the authors' con-man father Arthur Samuels Wolff, alias Arthur Saunders Wolff III, alias Saunders Ansell...
It can only be a matter of time before two such lovably independent cusses get together to make the rest of us ashamed of our hasty and thoughtless ways. The question is, How much time do we need to absorb the splendid example they set? Given the simple schematics of...
Wagener prefers to probe weaknesses that excuse his own fall from power. He sees Hitler as a poor administrator and a bad judge of human nature. It follows that his Volk hero is surrounded by "simpletons, mindless scum, and flatterers," most notably Himmler, Goebbels, and Göring, who greets Wagener...
What's the bottom line? Wireless companies like Jamdat and Infospace are getting panting attention from venture capitalists convinced that cell-phone services are their newest gold mine. Wall Street has started to grill every consumer company about its wireless strategy. But this hypefest isn't quite like the dotcom...