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...scale Abercrombie store on the premises. The store set up inside the headquarters, while fully stocked, isn’t real. Like the fake secretaries on the way in, the employees there also aren’t technically salespeople, because nothing in the store is for sale. Pretend employees pretend to stock and manage the store as a prototype for how every Abercrombie store must look and run. All those casually thrown on belts and layers in a regular store are planned to the smallest detail in Ohio, then shipped out to the rest of the country...
...horrified to realize that my monthly stipend check is funded by weapons manufacturers. Why must we profit from violence, even as we pretend to reject...
...world governments, this is called tyranny. At private institutions of education, it’s called sketchy. At least Blair and Bush took the time to come up with fancy rhetoric, pretending to care about the involvement of the Iraqi people in their new government. Summers and Kirby don’t even pretend that students or faculty might be substantively involved in major structural administrative decisions...
...that they favor peace over war, and that is the reason Iraq should be left alone, are simply living in a fantasy—a fantasy which is made possible by their physical distance from the threat. In San Francisco or Cambridge, it is easy for protesters to pretend that Saddam’s weapons can never reach them; Israelis don’t have the luxury of that illusion. I challenge those protesting the war from thousands of miles away to come here, within shooting distance of Iraq, and to make the same claims about peace. Israel has learned...
...think students deserve to be consulted on the qualities of a dean. But I guess not,” Chopra said. “It’s surprising that the administration didn’t even pretend to ask students...