Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Very few people involved in this issue pretend to know all the answers. The Committee on House Life, through which all issues of residential life are debated in a group equally composed of students, faculty and House masters, is discussing a lot of related issues designed to make students happier with their living environments...
Self-censorship inevitably blurs into outright deception as network anchors pretend the race hasn't been decided. "The only way Bush can win now is by carrying states X, Y and Z," they say, knowing full well that Bush can't carry states X, Y and Z and cannot win even if he does. Or they drop little hints of the true outcome -- "The smell of change is in the air tonight, Peter" -- as if these insights derive from years of experience and exquisitely sensitive journalistic nostrils rather than from cold, hard numbers on a computer screen in front...
...events which occurred at Harvard itself. "God!" says Benjamin, "you just keep thinking of all these mistakes you made. I remember when I was doing this play...a very serious melodramatic play, a very serious love scene. And my contact just flew out of my eye. I had to pretend that I was crying and all the time I was trying to wipe the contact away. I couldn't see a thing! And then we had this big kiss where we came running across the room into each other's arms--and I missed...
...from Yale--what to do? You go to the game, have a bad beer or two, and munch raw U.C. burgers. Then you go into the stands and watch that spheroid hurl down the field into the hands of Yale players. (We're going to lose.) But you'll pretend to have fun in the 20 degree weather anyway, discussing with your butt-cold friends your plans for the evening. Of course, there's always a chance that the Crimson will actually play a good game--it happened, after all, as recently as 1990 in New Haven. That would give...
Therefore, before collective security can work, the U.N. must work. The U.S. and other western powers need to agree to a restructuring of the Security Council to give smaller nations a louder voice. The world has changed too much to pretend that five permanent members are adequate...