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...fourth of nearly a dozen visits to West Point reporting this week's TIME cover story I find myself on The Plain, the parade ground that, the joke says, is "the most heavily mock-defended acre in the world." The occasion of the day is the pending retirement of several of West Point's highest officers, the heads of History and Social Sciences, the dean of Academics, and cadets are performing one of the tasks they hate most: parading across the field, a thousand of them in their stiffest formal grays, plumes whipping in the heavy wind...
...SENATORS LURED BACK TO EMERGENCY SESSION BY PROMISE OF FREE PIZZA" --Mock news headline in THE ONION...
Room 117 is a Pop Art pastiche of a murder scene. Room 105 has a mock surveillance camera tracking visitors to the bathroom. And Room 409 is a shrine to Swiss mountain sprite Heidi. This is Copenhagen's Hotel Fox, tel: (45) 3313 3000?comprising the work of 21 designers from four continents. They were brought together as part of a marketing exercise by Volkswagen, which asked the group to transform the former Park Hotel?a 61-room property in the center of the Danish capital?into a venue for the three-week launch of the automaker's latest runabout...
Room 117 is a Pop Art pastiche of a murder scene. Room 105 has a mock surveillance camera tracking visitors to the bathroom. And Room 409 is a shrine to Swiss maiden Heidi. This is Copenhagen's Hotel Fox, tel: (45) 3313 3000, an establishment that comprises the work of 21 designers from four continents. They were brought together as part of a marketing exercise by Volkswagen, which asked the group to transform the former Park Hotel - a 61-room property in the center of the Danish capital - into a venue for the three-week launch of the automaker...
...addition to “filibustering” for over 350 consecutive hours, students at Princeton have been raising money for a 24-hour mock filibuster on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. It is scheduled to begin this morning...