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...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...
...years old, her parents used to make her cry in hopes that they could make her tough. Dad was in the middle of an especially ugly re-election fight, his enemies were drawing blood, and so they all tried a game at the dinner table: Chelsea would pretend that she was her father, making speeches about why people should vote for her, and then he would attack her, say really mean things, so she would learn to protect herself. At first the exercises reduced the little girl to tears: "Why would anybody say things like that?" But after a while...
...ways, lying in general has become a lot easier. The breakdown of communities and the peripatetic habits of the population, notes Charles Ford, author of Lies! Lies!! Lies!!!: The Psychology of Deceit, have made lying harder to uncover. If you live in a condo in San Diego, you can pretend you were captain of your high school football team in Akron, Ohio. But for public figures, it's precisely the opposite: TV and the mass media turn the whole country into one small town...
...kids don't have this inability to control themselves in the real world." The 20 or so U.S. kids under 10 who are arrested for committing homicide each year are abnormal, in other words, but they're abnormal in a much more childish way than we admit when we pretend they had criminal intent and charge them with murder...
...pretend to be an academic theorist,"he said...