Word: pretender
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...confusion one feels about the band’s new sound. The band speeds up to a climax that seems to say “Look, we have heard the Vines before,” only to slow down to the familiar Reptilian garble that we love to pretend not to love. New Strokes? Old Strokes? Which is better? More posturing, more cool outfits, more “We are so random, no?”The video is almost rescued when some drunken oral ambition goes horribly awry, but that’s only because it reminded...
...warns them about what they might feel when they start taking the drugs (and that they might have symptoms when they go off them). And this is all that many SSRI critics ask of doctors: continue to prescribe the drugs when absolutely necessary, they say, but don't pretend they're as harmless as sweets...
...knows for sure whether serotonin has a role in depression, let alone exactly what that role might be. But many doctors pretend they're sure, Whitaker says, because "psychiatry for a long time had a bit of an inferiority complex. It wanted magic bullets like everybody else." Trouble is, the magic bullets, including the SSRIs, don't work very well. By perturbing neurotransmitter activity they can make patients chronically ill, says the Boston-based author...
Maybe all the war on terrorism needs is a real live pretend action hero. BRUCE WILLIS says he will pay $1 million to any civilian who turns in Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri or Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. While visiting troops in 2003, Willis promised the same sum to Saddam Hussein's captors. "I've since been told that military men and women cannot accept any reward for the job that they're doing," he told MSNBC's Rita Cosby, who persuaded him to open his wallet for civilians instead. Of course, the U.S. government's $25 million prize...
...whether both halves will appeal equally to students.“We don’t want to suggest a program that might potentially die on the vine,” Thomas said. “We need to just make sure that [the recommendations] make sense and not pretend that something makes sense without really testing it.”Menand said the success of the general education courses depends on Faculty interest as well.“The hope is that some new courses [in addition to ex-Core courses] will be developed but there is nothing that...