Word: pretender
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...outpouring of sadness from her countrymen bordered on the hysterical. And while many of us would like to pretend that only monarchy-mad Britons are capable of such a display, mourning for this damaged, lovely, contradictory woman engaged much of the world for days...
When the substance of Murawiec's briefing leaked to the Washington Post, U.S. officials tried to pretend it had never happened. Rumsfeld dismissed it as the musings of "a French national, a resident alien," and Secretary of State Colin Powell phoned the Saudi Foreign Minister to calm down his government. Rand issued a statement distancing itself from its analyst's comments. Murawiec wasn't talking...
...them Jewish, half from Arab countries. Last week, as the West-Eastern Divan rehearsed in a former Catholic seminary outside this southern Spanish city, Barenboim explained the motivation he and Said share: "That there is no military solution in the Middle East, either strategically or morally." He doesn't pretend that his young musicians - with a dash of Spaniards and Moroccans among the Israelis and Arabs - have the answer, but he believes music has lessons for nations, particularly his own founded in 1948 and the Palestinian one struggling to exist. "Nothing in music is independent," he says. "It requires...
...impact spirals and political color charts give way to emotional venting against ecotourists who, "at an individual level, cannot be relied on to minimize the social and economic impact of their own vacationing." Duffy assails these novelty-seeking visitors for their "hedonistic pursuits" and, quite often, snobbery as they pretend to rough it. "[T]heir travel acts as a marker of social position, which separates them from conventional tourists," she fumes. "Their self-denial of the luxuries of conventional travel is motivated by a need to demonstrate to themselves that they can cope with the hardships that they...
People now know that this crisis was years in the making. Stocks kept climbing because executives kept finding creative new ways to hide the truth and fake a profit, to pretend they were investing money rather than just spending it. The revelations make for some dark magic now. When $2 billion disappears from Xerox's revenues, $4 billion from WorldCom's, it makes people feel poorer even if they personally lost nothing. The markets now look as if they could manage their third straight year of losses, for the first time since World War II, even though the economy grew...