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...that reason, among the middle-class voters who have lost almost everything—jobs, savings, homes—and who are loathe to gamble on a candidate whose entire campaign is based on change, when change is destroying them.Hillary understood Levittown. She pandered to it with duck-shooting faux Rust Belt authenticity, but also with tangible proposals for health care, energy, and job creation. And if she offended us when she argued that “Obama will have trouble appealing to white voters,” she was, unfortunately, exactly right. It has become increasingly clear that John...
...Delhi's Nehru Place business district, and the cafe is quickly filling up. Sharply dressed executives are talking on expensive cell phones in faux American accents. Rich housewives are discussing shopping lists before a matinee show, and weary IT students from neighborhood coaching centers are grabbing a bite...
...mainly because it's pretty much lifted from a Ben Stiller movie: hapless Sam (Kyle Bornheimer), just engaged, tries to impress his future in-laws, but every attempt ends up disastrously. (In the first episode, he accidentally convinces his wife's family that her father is dead, a social faux pas in most cultures.) It's game if unambitious, with plenty of misunderstandings and physical comedy that involve the violation of poultry. By the second episode, there are signs that the premise may not sustain for long (the title, after all, gives it only a week), but it still shows...
...President Zardari's charm offensive on Ms. Palin was, well, offensive," wrote political analyst Mosharraf Zaidi in an op-ed for The News. "What excuse does the husband of a global feminist icon have for his faux pas?" he asked in a reference to the late Benazir Bhutto's status as the Muslim world's first female Prime Minister...
...Watch, bag?” enough times that if just one person mixed it up—“Bag, watch?”—you’d follow them into any questionable alleyway, up any set of narrow stairs, and into any dank, faux-Louis-Vuitton-filled room. But on most days, you don’t need to be reminded of the overwhelming pirated-goods market in Shanghai; you need to be convinced that anything here is real.The first week you spend in this former marshland, which was transformed into a financial capital seemingly...