Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fifteen years later, the sign still shines in a steady constant glow so that "sometimes when [BU students] get bored [they can] turn out the lights, look out of [their] window and pretend that the Citgo sign is a giant disco ball shining light into [their] own private Studio 54." Well, no one ever said Boston was that exciting anyway...
...shouldn't. We all know the council, elected by a mere handful of the student body, cannot pretend to represent accurately the sentiments and interests of the campus. For this reason, the council should administer a campus-wide referendum to gauge student opinion on the issue...
...Nope. Not gonna happen, he thinks; she is so not interested him that it hurts. At least she was nice enough to pretend that she wants to go with him on Sunday, he reasons. If she had told him what she was doing tonight, it would have been less harsh. He won't bother her again. Interpretation: She does not like...
...pretend to know exactly what they are, but at least three changes seem evident. Twenty-two-year-olds today have more opportunities than their parents and grandparents did and in a wider variety of locations; intra-and international travel are so commonplace that little but familial ties inhibits us from ending up in San Francisco, Nairobi, Paris or Bucharest...
...President of the most powerful nation on earth, the victims of his anarchy will be global. Clinton's hardheadedness will soon start claiming victims, and they will be far-flung. No continent will be immune. Americans will be abdicating their responsibility for global leadership if they continue to pretend this issue is exclusively an American problem. PETER EGBE-ULU Lagos, Nigeria...