Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT KNEW IT WAS GOING TO face charges that it is in Uncle Sam's pocket. So it tried to pretend that Mahmud Abohalima asked voluntarily to go back to the U.S. In fact he was arrested by Egyptian security forces in a town near Alexandria and flown back last Wednesday to the U.S., which he had fled shortly after the Feb. 26 World Trade Center bombing. A 12-car motorcade whisked him from an upstate New York airport to Manhattan, where he was arraigned for allegedly aiding and abetting the bombing. Abohalima, a former New York City-area...
...pretend that we are objective is an attempt to deceive," Anderson said. "We are unable to be objective. I have known every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt and every president has felt abused by the press...
Though Clinton insists that there is a "big difference" between his program and Bush's, the distinction is a matter of purpose, not policy. Clinton cloaks his decisions in humanitarian rhetoric, while Bush simply tried to pretend that the fleeing Haitians did not legitimately fear for their lives in Haiti. Whatever the rationale, the policy is essentially the same. It is as cruel, as appalling and as morally unacceptable now as it was when Clinton was a candidate...
...marginal health-care technology to preserve lives already at their tail end was a fruitless attempt to raise our collective quality of life. American medical-research institutions, he said, are trying to do to natural death what the Victorians did to sex--sweep it under the carpet and pretend that it doesn't exist...
Gifford said the settlement "doesn't solve the problem" and the Fund will continue challenging similar expansion attempts by the University in the future. She said she hopes "Harvard will not pretend [in the future] to have parking spaces when they...