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...William J. Maskiell ’02 received his first year was fairly brutal. The girl in question didn’t tell him that he was a nice guy or that she didn’t want to ruin their friendship. She didn’t pretend to have a boyfriend. She didn’t roll her eyes or ignore him. She didn’t even claim to not have a phone...
...sent me a series of e-mails requesting photos from the pageant and ended with the following message: “I am probably annoying the shit out of you by now, but I don’t care because you are Miss Harvard. You have to pretend to be nice even though you’re a total bitch.” And it’s true. I’ve always had difficulty being completely honest with people who rub me the wrong way or complicate my life. It has taken mild forms like when an elementary...
Tommy Suharto could at least pretend to be worried. After all, Jakarta's onetime crown prince and playboy-in-chief had just sat through the first few days of his trial for the murder of a Supreme Court Justice last year. If convicted, he could face the death penalty. But life in Jakarta's maximum security penitentiary seems to agree with the 39-year-old Tommy, the youngest son of Indonesia's former dictator Suharto. After four months in prison awaiting trial, he arrived for the opening legal arguments last week at a central Jakarta courthouse looking rested...
...pool of suicide bombers is not large. To pretend that it is universal is absurd. Airport security is not permitted to "racially" profile, but every passenger--white or black, male or female, Muslim or Christian--does. We scan the waiting room, scrutinizing other passengers not just for nervousness and shiftiness but also for the demographic characteristics of al-Qaeda. We do it privately. We do it quietly. But we do it. Airport officials, however, may not. This is crazy. So crazy that it is only a matter of time before the public finally demands that our first priority be real...
...Don’t pretend, when putting together said price range, that the most expensive items in the spread are just as affordable as the cheap ones. No, buying a $450 pair of shoes is not as great a “bargain” as buying a $50 pair...