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...these discussions. "With a group it takes pressure or inertia away from people who would otherwise have to go themselves. It takes a lot more admission of some thing to haul yourself up to the third floor of UHS than just going to these meetings, where you can pretend you just want cookies...
...really dangerous for people to pretend they have all the answers. It's important not to be on a power trip, to be humble...
...across the street from the paper, they struck up a wake, the last in a round of such affairs. They had twice given themselves a slide show of their faces at work, to a recording of Nat King Cole singing, "Pretend you're happy when you're blue." "It was the most relaxed place I ever worked," said a tearful obituary writer. "It was money," said a belligerent political reporter, getting no argument. "All Scripps-Howard thought about was money...
...breakup of AT&T has so many possible ramifications that few people even pretend to understand it thoroughly. Wall Street firms have held dozens of investor seminars on the divestiture, all run by veteran staffers bristling with law degrees and M.B.A.s. But at one session last month, "I don't know" was a tellingly frequent response from, among others, panelist Alfred Kahn, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under Jimmy Carter. An expert on the telephone industry, Kahn presided over the deregulation of U.S. airlines in the late 1970s and is now a professor of political economy at Cornell...
...opinion, Lebanon was a decisive turning point for Israelis. It fueled long standing antagonisms between the religious and the secular, between the hawks and the doves, necessitating a re-definition of the goals of the Israeli state. Israel could no longer pretend to be entirely unified, as groups such as Oz's Peace Now movement sponsored anti-war demonstrations in the capital. Less obvious but equally important was the widespread disappointment with the image of Israel the aggressor. Israelis could blame the Arabs for all six previous Arab-Israeli wars, and could justify the bloodshed as the defense of Israel...