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One simply cannot disengage from the outside world selectively; this is an all-too-easy-to-believe ivory tower delusion. Just as the food in the dining hall is not really free, and "dining services flexibility" means that more employees go home later, our position as college students does not...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Stuck in the Tower | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

No matter how ridiculous the concept seems, we realize by the end of Wag the Dog that delusion of the masses on a grand scale is a brutally realistic possibility. The media has the power to whip up an emotional whirlwind so powerful that all of America gets trapped in...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film at Eleven: Bigger, Better Conspiracy Theory | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

A man lying to himself: that is delusion. A nation lying to itself: that is policy. Thus the death of half a million American Indians is euphemized as manifest destiny. The French, after their craven accommodation to the occupying Nazis, had their own little lie. Collaborators? Mais non--we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE THREE FACES OF EVIL | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

Think of an old-dark-house party catered by Noel Coward. A place as creepy as the Pascals' needs a virgin sacrifice, and that would be Lesly (Tori Spelling), a waitress engaged to the young master of the house, Jackie-O's twin Marty (Josh Hamilton). He's halfway between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN INCESTUOUS COMEDY OF TERRORS | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

The point of the column? Lamelle is busy. Very busy. Much busier than anyone else on this campus. It seems that Hennessy-Fiske operates under the common Harvard delusion that students like to hear how busy other students are. -David Lehn '99 Adam Kovacevich '99

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Piece on Rawlins Lacks Point | 10/2/1997 | See Source »

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