Word: fakeness
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...being better shots than the Mafia. They add that none of the hundreds of complaints alleging staged shoot-outs or executions filed by victims' relatives or human-rights groups?or even a handful of official inquiries?has ever led to a conviction for extrajudicial killing. "The allegations of fake encounters are baseless," says Pradeep Sawant, Bombay's deputy police commissioner. "It's not that we always go to kill. Our idea is to arrest the gangsters. We only retaliate if we're fired upon...
Maybe 2002 was a big year for you. But who writes headlines about you? In the news this was a fake year, a retro year, a year when new ideas were kicked to the curb like some dorky futuristic scooter. If someone came to you 10 years ago and told you that one of the biggest news stories of 2002 would be the rescue of a bunch of guys who work in a coal mine actually mining coal, you would tell Future Boy to get back on his dorky scooter and go home...
This was a fake year, a retro year, a year when new ideas were kicked to the curb like some dorky futuristic scooter. If someone came to you 10 years ago and told you that one of the biggest U.S. news stories in 2002 would be a big-time politician saying nice things about racial segregation, you would tell Future Boy to get back on his dorky scooter and go home. And if he told you that one of the year's biggest European news stories was going to be the supposed rise of anti-Semitism, you'd tell...
...vacation until intersession. Friends back home react with fresh amazement every December to the news that the worst still awaits us. “You haven’t had finals yet? Wow! That sucks.” Yes, it does, and each year we feel less inclined to fake a smile...
...single field, like vaccine production. They are trained in how to spot anomalies in facilities that can have both a benign civilian use and a more sinister military one. Team members are also taught how to use the latest weapons-detection gadgets. Mock inspections require them to encounter fake Iraqi officials hiding fake long-range missiles, say, or fake mustard...