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...just pretend that people are ahead of me and I try to pass them. It’s kind of fun to do that especially when you’re swimming a rivalry team like [Princeton...
...Buckingham Palace does not make a clearer statement explaining why the Queen will not attend the wedding, it will be impossible to pretend that this is not, in fact, a royal rebuff. If the Queen has some personal distaste for the wedding itself that would justify her matrimonial absence, it can no longer remain hidden. As the head of a Royal Family wanting in popularity, the Queen has a responsibility to improve relations with her subjects. And, in the eyes of the British people, only 47 percent of whom believe the monarchy should be maintained after the Queen?...
...kind of pisses us off that they’re trying to come down here and pretend like this is their home gym,” Cusworth said. “There’s no way that we were going to let them take over the atmosphere of the gym...We let our play prove that point...
What we are discussing is the genocide of human beings. We may pretend their lives don’t have meaning because they are thousands of miles away in Africa or because they are black or because they don’t live in well-manicured suburbs and watch The OC—but our delusion only changes reality for us, not them. This type of delusion is frightening, really, because it is what our entire culture of disconnect and selfishness and impotence is built on. It is what prevents us from responding adequately to homelessness, poor schools, HIV/AIDS...
...their kids along for the ride. In her extraordinary book The Glass Castle, Walls describes a childhood spent careering across the country, from California to West Virginia, in a succession of ever more rattletrap cars, in pursuit of increasingly implausible get-rich-quick schemes. "We were always supposed to pretend our life was one long and incredibly fun adventure," she writes...