Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hour-long discussion last night that was sponsored by Harvard Students for Israel (HSI). Though Dershowitz and Chomsky—who had spoken at an event an hour earlier—weren’t in the same place last night, the two were engaged in a pseudo-debate because Dershowitz attended the end of Chomsky’s speech and then spent his own seeking to undermine his nemesis, who is an outspoken critic of Israel. The law professor accused Chomsky, whom he first met in 1948, of “making up facts,” calling...
...Sparknotes is disgusting,” says Magliozzi. With a calm demeanor and an intellectual air, Magliozzi fits right in at the pseudo-intellectual Hist and Lit haven, Café Pamplona, tucked away in a corner table. “These are the classic works of literatures—we should be engaging more, not less...
...escape this obligation, some Singaporean families flee the country - like the family of Eddie in "Those Who Serve, Those Who Do Not." In this story, as in life, an absconder like Eddie can't return to Singapore without facing prosecution. But his sister Joanne returns from her comfortable, pseudo exile in Sydney to visit Uncle Sam and cousin Peter. They did not have the means of escape and instead relied on a powerfully Singaporean stoicism to get them through military duty, embodying qualities Joanne's family too blithely left behind. "She looked at the thousands of HDB [Housing & Development Board...
...members of a society, the rate of packaged food consumption will decrease dramatically. Along with this sharp decline in processed food, the American population would dramatically lower its intake of sugars, salts, and unhealthy fats, and the obesity epidemic would plateau, if not decline.Eisenberg structured the conference as a pseudo-teaching kitchen, his dream location for the application of this philosophy. Eisenberg sought to structure the workship by creating autonomous departments in which attendees learn everything from how to pick healthy food in the supermarket to how to prepare nutritious and delicious recipes under budget and time constraints. Give...
...materialistic advertising executive with a soul in serious need of rescue. Enter: Jill, played by still up-and-coming actress Taryn Manning, a beautiful and charismatic young woman with a carefree attitude. Jack is struck by her positive approach to life and the two become roommates (and a pseudo-couple); but their differing outlooks continuously clash. What Jack does not know is that Jill’s liveliness spawns from her lack of time—she has been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. As Jack and Jill take on the world in this “Sweet November?...