Word: pretender
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...museum next door may make the process more fun, but it's only one of the ways in which the Academy lowers the firewall between the classroom and the world beyond it. Students in an economics class put principles into practice with projects in which pairs of students pretend to be married couples living on a budget. "What good is it to teach them about math and economics at school if they still go home and spend $200 on sneakers or $2,000 on a stereo they can't afford with interest payments of 28%?" asks Charles Dershimer, a faculty...
Pause. Sometimes in a shopping frenzy you'll be operating at high speed. You grab some clothes, try them on (or not), maneuver your way to the shortest line at checkout. The quicker you get it done, the quicker you can pretend it didn't happen. So pause. Take a deep breath. Ask the opinion of the person in the next dressing room. Go to the bathroom if you can't think of anything else. What you're really doing is putting a little space between yourself and this purchase...
...pretend that applicants’ qualifications and life experiences are all that matter in admissions only results in superficial explanations for the discrepancies in admissions rates among different groups. College admission is an unavoidably subjective process, and, according to the admissions office, the vast majority of applicants could be successful at Harvard. The limited number of places available demands some kind of secondary screening process beyond academic ability, and rightly so: All students are more than just numbers and contribute both inside and outside the classroom. That said, the rosy vision of the admissions process as choosing a diverse...
...needs someone among the students to resist his overbearing but yet rather theatrically conventional nonconformity. And although his end proves a point that Bennett keeps making - that history is largely determined by accident and is not as subject to rational explanations as those who write it like to pretend - there is something unearned about Hector's sad fate...
...Cornell to play the Big Red—ranked No. 9—and Western Ontario. In preparation for the early matches, which will get harder, Bajwa has the team going through “crisis training.” “That’s when [we pretend] it’s 8-all and the game is riding on one or two points,” he said. “We’re not going to make mistakes. I feel that last season we lost so many 10-8, 10-9 matches, so we?...