Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hear about your moral dilemma. If you like the guys in the club that punched you, go check it out. Your female friends will still talk to you. They may glare disapprovingly now, but next semester they'll be using your name to get into the party. Don't pretend that the clubs' legacy of racism, anti-Semitism and class discrimination really bothers you. After all, fair Harvard was guilty of the same crimes, and you probably didn't hesitate to accept your offer of admission...
...kingdom Fine Art Gallery this month is an exciting exhibit featuring paintings, sculpture and mixed media works by some people you may have heard of and others you will pretend to have heard of. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., 153 Mass Ave. 266-1997. FREE...
...from him." In fairness, too, staff members never knew what the facts were, and the lawyers wouldn't tell them. They had no choice but to wait for signs from the top. An aide, asked what the strategy is, said the President will continue to talk but won't pretend to change the subject; the White House knows this scandal is not going away. Then he paused and conceded, "I guess that's not a strategy. That's a philosophy...
...those who are less charitably inclined, there are a myriad of self-indulgent organizations to explore. If you miss the halcyon days of medieval times, you can help The Society for Creative Anachronism recreate them. For those with even more active imaginations there is the Harvard Investment Association. Pretend you are Gordon Gecko. Pretend you live on the Upper West Side. Prepare for 100-hour weeks punching numbers...
...well. And the simple fact is that Russia does not produce. The old rust belt--defense-oriented enterprises employing tens of thousands each--are still lurching along, turning out things so costly and so shoddy that no one wants to buy them. In Soviet times, workers joked that they pretended to work and the state pretended to pay them. Now the line could be that the workers pretend to make things and the factories pretend to sell them. The plants can't pay their taxes or their workers, and instead barter some of the stuff coming off the production lines...