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...Clinton. Speaking to TIME, she was even tougher and more unbowed. She says she knows what she did was wrong and that most Americans would like her to be more contrite. But she insists that her feelings of remorse are no better than mixed. "I'm not going to pretend that it was always about something bigger than me," she says. "Because for me, it wasn...
Lewinsky: I'm not going to pretend that it was always about something bigger than me. Because, for me, it wasn't. For me, I was the one lying awake at night crying, scared I was going to go to jail. I was the one being followed. I was the one being torn apart in the press, and my family. And then, yes, I bore some responsibility for how that came about. But I don't know that the punishment fit the crime...
...extent that females relied on male help in raising a family, the smartest female reproductive strategy may have involved no less treachery than the male one: behave promiscuously, so you'll be sure to get pregnant, but pretend to be monogamous--professing undying love--so that at least one of the fellows will think the kids are his and possibly take an interest in them. Hey, it fooled the evolutionary psychologists...
...what of our complicity? Why do so many of us insist on showing our parents only the superficial gloss? We've scanned today's class schedule searching for marquee professors, we'll proudly show-off the magisterial interior of Sanders Theatre, and we’ll probably even pretend that our House Masters know our names. What we should do is have our parents sit with us for an hour while we churn out a senseless response paper. That would give them a clearer picture...
...wine. And then on his birthday, his mom passed out at the table in the middle of her sentence telling my mom about estrogen replacement therapy because she is Korean and allergic to alcohol in large quantities and had had too much champagne and we all tried to pretend that nothing had happened even though she was lying passed out on the table. Then she revived and it was like nothing had happened...