Word: illusioners
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PLAINLY, Wright wants concrete answers to the great doubts that most of us sometimes confront, but he is under no illusion that these scientists provide them. They are making guesses, as we are. Theirs are perhaps more educated, but in the end, their actions seem more eloquent than their words...
The new approach poses a dilemma for Deng, Zhao and other reformers. Not only does the change of course expose popular fears of the market-oriented direction that the economy is taking but it also underscores the leadership's inability to force the middle levels of the party bureaucracy to...
Sport at the highest levels, whether labeled professional or merely operated that way, has always demanded of its followers a certain capacity for illusion. Exalting the athletes we pay to play for us over the ones they pay to play for them is tricky. It requires an ability to squint...
Harvard Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline C. O'Neill opposed Walsh's concern over housing prices, however, and said, "Rents are fair at Peabody Terrace. The illusion from the outside that Peabody Terrace should be rented out to our tenants at luxury rates is wrong."
What is unfortunate is that television and the daily newspapers, forced to produce a Bush and Dukakis story each day, feed the illusion that the candidates are conducting a dialogue with the electorate. Sound bites aside, little that either contender is saying provides a fresh glimpse of what he might...