Word: ruse
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...quotes by student leaders in The Crimson seemed to suggest that University officials should investigate the students themselves as well as their $2,000 in travel funds from the IOP. Did they conspire to have themselves arrested? Was their “study group” only a ruse for radicalism? Was the questionnaire they distributed among street protestors really an objective survey instrument? Should the IOP be subsidizing such activity...
...afraid that the end of his FM career may mean that he might actually have to start his thesis. Don’t worry Larry, you never have to start your thesis. Your thesis is just a figment of your imagination—a diabolical ruse concocted by your psychoanalyst to distract you from the real source of all your problems: your Oedipal complex. Go take a nice long nap and it will all be better when you get up. (Sadistic laughter...
...first exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History in Madrid as a genuine scientific catalog. With no posted indication that this exhibit was the work of an artist rather than a scientist, the public, as well as many of the museum curators, were easily deceived by this artistic ruse...
...observers savored the irony of a stone thrower whose glass house was shattering. "Most Americans didn't fall for his ruse about kicking 'the media,'" says media analyst Ellen Hume. "He is the media. On the drug issue, we could give him the benefit of the doubt. But why give him a fairness clause that he denies others? Rush's way is to rush to judgment, regardless of the facts. Now it's his turn to be judged." And his turn to hope that the judges may be just a little bit...liberal. --Reported by Sean Gregory/New York...
...batch of 250 slated for destruction. The main purpose of keeping them, he says, was to test their deterioration over time. The Iraqis handed over the shells to the U.N. in 1997, claiming that they had been mis-stored and recently discovered, an explanation Samir says was a ruse. When four of the shells were unsealed, tests found their contents to be 97% pure. "The gas was perfect," says Samir...