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...were once freshmen, and I have developed a few techniques to help mask the fact that you’re a Yard-dwelling, Expos-writing frosh. My methods have proven so effective that, during my freshman year, there were several occasions when students, professors, and, yes, even my parents, mistook me for a junior, senior, Larry Summers...
...Brazil. His obsession has brought its share of trouble. He's had life-threatening encounters with con men in silver mines-one tried to throw him down a shaft, he says. And not long ago, he was robbed. It's little consolation to Boissevain that the burglars evidently mistook his fake diamonds for the real thing. "They mustn't be very smart," he says mournfully...
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INITIATED. Into the death of PAT TILLMAN, Arizona Cardinals defensive back who quit football to join the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan in April 2004, after fellow Rangers mistook him for a Taliban fighter; by the Defense Department's inspector general; in Washington. The Army originally blamed enemy fire for Tillman's death. Tillman's family has criticized three previous Army investigations as incomplete...
When I first saw Beck at the therapy convention in November, I mistook him for a diffident patrician, an image he seemed to project with his neatly trimmed white hair, bow tie, tweed jacket, gray socks and grandfatherly laugh. In fact, Beck-the son of a Ukrainian socialist father and a "rather dominant" Russian mother, according to Weishaar-is a tireless defender of his therapy. He spoke to me with bemusement about the new wave of therapies. "I don't think you call something a revolution until it's actually happened," he said, chuckling. "You get new, popular approaches that...
...same question nine times like I used to." Kiss Kiss's Black says Kilmer was an asset, even if he was sometimes weird, calling the director at home in strange voices, which Black eventually realized were test voices for Gay Perry. "I suspect that people mistook his perfectionism for arrogance," Black says. "Weirdness is tolerable in someone who delivers blockbuster performance after performance...