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...those extremely easy tests, your final grade of B+ becomes an A-; if you don't, well, come try again. If you still don't make it (oh, man, it can't be!), okay, don't worry about it, it won't affect your grade at all, so just pretend there is no such test. You are almost guaranteed to be better off in a Core than anywhere else...
...book treats "arguments about group differences in the reality of America," said Gould, who wrote The Mismeasure of Man. "You can't pretend that somehow has nothing to do with race...
...pretend that the Undergraduate Council is or can be representative of student opinion, or that it can or will act on our behalf? No one cares about it, and its members perennially return the feeling. The council is an impotent farce...
...confused and, having perfected their procrastination techniques, often know a great deal about the minute details of the O.J. Simpson saga. When two get together they will in fact often try to discuss the case, since each of them is involved in research that no-one else can even pretend to find interesting...
...frequently, I too would escape the high-school, let's-at-least-pretend-to-be-grown-ups world in which I normally functioned to descend to his cavern, trying to understand the man. Or at least to spend time with him--as if he were a child of my own divorced marriage and I had been granted only the most infrequent of visitation rights...