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...Ayindi Secret '01) doing a very basic acting trick; facing the audience, he shaves as if he is looking into a mirror. The perfect pantomime of his toilet hoists the audience into a dramatic enchantment and reminds one of just how far we've sunk in this summer of real-world television. While we can see plenty of people plucking lettuce from their teeth from cameras hidden behind real mirrors, it's really so much better when it's fake. So what if the Cold War is over? See Hapgood and suspend disbelief. It's better that...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spies and Thrills Abound in 'Hapgood' | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

...taken some anxious years of real-world experience for people to figure out that crypto turned loose in cyberspace will not make the world blow up. Crypto's more or less around and available now, and no, it's not an explosive munition. The threats were overblown, much like Y2K. The rhetoric of all sides has been crazily provocative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cyber Criminals Run The World? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...interested in extremely important, real-world problems," Friedman says. "All this has made a great deal of difference for economics, and it has opened the way for an enormous number of followers to implement... some of the new conceptual frameworks that Sen has developed...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Famed Economist Sen Addresses Graduates | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...favored artillery of the Hezbollah guerrillas for attacking northern Israeli towns). The system tracked the incoming rocket, and blew it up with an invisible laser beam created by a chemical reaction in a battlefield weapon. "This is really the first time you have a ray gun with a real-world application," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Of course it doesn't have any capacity to discriminate between different objects, it simply destroys whatever's in its path. But a lot of people are very excited about this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So, Lasers Can Destroy Missiles. But Will They Find Them in Time? | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...founders of Bang Networks all have significant real-world business experience, according to Rosin- experience that will serve them well when they take their company out of the planning stage and into the market...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Content Dot-com Wins HBS Contest | 5/3/2000 | See Source »

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