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...Let’s do the thing but let’s not footsie around and then pretend that we did it,” he said...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Councillors Debate Smoking Ban | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

...match here on Feb. 13, some mischievous opponents of President Robert Mugabe have an idea for a practical joke. They know most Zimbabweans, unlike South Africans, have never cared for the sport. And in these tough times, people are too busy playing other games - Spot the Shortest Petrol Queue, Pretend You're a Ruling Party Member to Get Food - to pay attention to this one. But there may be a way to get everyone out to the cricket ground. "We might spread a rumor that there's going to be free food," says one local wag. "Then we'll have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laughing Matters | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...tabloid. "I have only entered once using a credit card, and I have never downloaded." If it's true that Townshend, 57, was sexually abused as a child, that could help explain his best music, which reached into reserves of fear and rage that many other rock musicians only pretend to possess. As both a head-banging rocker and the beseeching man-child who wrote, "See me, feel me/Touch me, heal me"--for Tommy, about a boy who has been molested--was Townshend making a lifelong reply to some primal outrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught Up In the Web | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...every campus in the country. Would racism go away? Racism would go underground, in the dark, where it’s most comfortable.... But racist attitudes would still fester. The only way to deal with racism is to bring it out into the open—not to pretend it has been scared away...

Author: By Richard L. Cravatts, | Title: Don't Put Speech on Trial | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...TIME: I've seen two movies recently that are about young men who creatively live a lie, who pretend to be people they're not. And you star in both films: "Gangs of New York" and "Catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leo Speaks! | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

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