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...President, Chen Shui-bian, in his attempt to purge Chinese culture from Taiwan and segregate Taiwan's people from their counterparts across the strait. If the people of Taiwan truly wish to declare themselves non-Chinese, they will have to stop speaking the Chinese language and will need to pretend that the mainland is just a place far, far away that never played a significant role in the history of Taiwan. Wang Yinchu Singapore...
...undergraduate at Taylor University in Indiana, Simons spent a semester studying in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala and was struck by the abject poverty he witnessed. “It wouldn’t be right for me to go back to the States and pretend I never saw that,” Simons said...
...Kerry is less American and somehow potentially unelectable because he is well educated, is fluent in more than one language, has good taste and is well groomed? If being elected President of the U.S. requires a candidate to speak like Clint Eastwood in a bad western, pretend to like Philly cheesesteaks and appeal to lowest-common-denominator redneck values, then God help us! Please give American voters more credit. Neil Fox Helsinki...
...read in Aloft the more we get the feeling that the superficially omnicompetent Jerry is totally unequipped to deal with pain--his own, he represses; that of others, he ignores. There's not an unkind bone in his body, but he's deeply passive and just wants everybody to pretend things are fine, and the fact that he can call himself on it isn't helping him change. "I'm one to leap up from the mat to aid all manner of strangers and tourists and other wide-eyed foreigners," he admits, "but when it comes to loved ones...
...They offer what I prefer to call ‘pretend security,’” she said of the act’s authors. “The line between terrorism and traditional civil disobedience has been blurred...