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First, we worked with a mock-up of a plane and wing, learning the sequence of commands that would get us from inside the plane to the final jump position, holding the wing strut, left foot on the wheel, right foot dangling in the 75 mph wind...
During the four-day conference, mock sessions of the United Nations were conducted by nine different committees discussing actual topics taken from the agenda of the real U.N. The committees passed several resolutions and sent them to the body in New York City...
They delivered opening statements, conducted direct and cross examination of witnesses, and made closing arguments in a mock trial of a criminal case, according to a press release by the Law School's Criminal Justice Institute...
...stint on the high school newspaper. Jim Kelly got the news bug when he was negotiating a treaty on long-range nuclear missiles. It happened when he was an undergraduate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, preparing to take part in a mock U.S.-Soviet negotiating session on SALT II. "I thought the exercise was pretty silly," says Jim. "Besides, doing the reporting on both sides' positions was more intriguing to me than being part of the action. That's when I began to think I was a born observer...
When Beth Ann begins to worry about the car dealer she didn't pick, the unfunded college student and the child still awaiting the transplant, the hosts gloss over her anxiety. As they croon to her that they "feel so warm and wonderful...in one big happy family," they mock the illusion of the American dream...