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...pursuits, such as developing a Web site, www.girlsinleadership.com, that aims to promote leadership among high school girls. “She’s on top of her game,” says Anna P. Brito ’08, her roommate. “People offer advice and pretend to care, but she’s really genuine. I found that hard to find in a competitive place like Harvard. That’s my favorite quality about her.” Life after Harvard will lead Chauhan, who is concentrating in sociology with a secondary field in economics...
Kanye West His Graduation leads the pack with eight nominations, including album of the year. It's his worst record to date, but it sold well and is the one rap album Grammy voters know they are supposed to pretend they heard this year...
...carrier or a small steamer trunk. This is because along with the usual game disc, Rock Band comes with a collection of plastic musical instruments: a guitar, a drum kit and a bass (which looks exactly like the guitar), plus a microphone for vocals. Using these "instruments," you pretend to play along to songs by Nirvana, the Rolling Stones, Metallica, Radiohead, R.E.M. and so on. You're not actually playing--the instruments don't make any noise. The fun is real, but everything else is fake...
...brews. But scientists wrote in the British Medical Journal that absinthe bottled before 1900 packed up to 260 p.p.m. of thujone--which may not sound like much, but consider that only 15 parts per billion of lead in drinking water is enough to scare regulators. "They are playing pretend," study co-author Wilfred Arnold says of the liquor's new cheerleaders. "It is nothing like the old stuff...
...Haven. But so what if you chose to go to Yale? Everyone makes mistakes! Today we offer to forget the mistakes of the past, if Yalies would simply drop the act. We all need to admit that Yale was a mistake from the beginning. It is time to pretend that it never happened. Students should stop going to class; it’s what’s best for their future. Alumni should stop going to work; it’s what’s best for our economy. Undoubtedly, if we woke up tomorrow and Yale had shut...