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First, Crimson Cash is no more than a $75 subsidy paid for by each of Harvard's students in order to distort the free market, force students to trek to Loker Commons in the snow and sleet [so as not to lose the $75 allotment which their tuition purchased], and alter their normal consumption choices. Alas, say goodbye to Tommy's. Pinocchio's and Bartley's Burger Cottage. Pretty soon we will all have to eat in an ugly tan basement with no windows. And we wanted more choices...
Wechsler seeks to make an example of drunkards who cause problems for their classmates, while Perkins' theory suggests that the high level of visibility given to problem-makers may distort students' misperceptions. Again referring to attribution theory, which Perkins cites as part of his theses, we have a limited perception of events around us. Despite this limited perception, like the two students who based their understanding of drinking on their past experiences, we are forced to make judgments--in this case to form a definition of moderate drinking...
...quoted as saying, "It's very clearly the case that Harvard is not being negligent," in its handling of the ethnic studies question. Further, the interviewer goes on to state that I believe that Harvard is already adequately addressing ethnic studies in the curriculum. These two statements misrepresent or distort my views on the subject...
...evolutionary psychiatrist Randolph Nesse has noted, television can also distort our self-perception. Being a socially competitive species, we naturally compare ourselves with people we see, which meant, in the ancestral environment, measuring ourselves against fellow villagers and usually finding at least one facet of life where we excel. But now we compare our lives with "the fantasy lives we see on television," Nesse writes in the recent book Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine, written with the eminent evolutionary biologist George Williams. "Our own wives and husbands, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters can seem...
...POWER OF FEELINGS Physical trauma can distort memory, presumably by destroying all or part of one of these memory-processing structures. But other sorts of shock-strong emotion, for example-can do the same. Virtually everyone who was over the age of 10 when J.F.K. was shot or when Challenger exploded remembers precisely where he or she was when the news arrived. Posttraumatic stress disorder, which affects Vietnam vets like Bill Noonan, is another good example. While the intellectual memory of emotions is routed through the hippocampus, a different, gut-level sort of memory can be involuntarily revived with terrible...