Word: pseudo
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Just sometimes, though, there is no alternative to a military solution. FARC, the largest group with 17,000 fighters, has no interest in participating in a pluralistic society. FARC is a pseudo-Marxist revolutionary group (is there any other kind?) that has about as much to do with liberalism as al-Qaeda has to do with Islam. The right wing AUC, which developed in response to the government’s failure to provide security, has been known to extinguish whole villages in its reactionary zeal. Both would rather traffic in drugs than in ideas...
...overall experience of watching Abandon feels like being handed a bag of movie fluff: There’s nothing substantial in it, nor anything to give it meaning. Despite blatantly trying to manipulate its audience with dark lighting, creepy music, pseudo-artsy panoramic views of night skies and an overabundance of flashbacks and fast forwards, these cinematic tricks still fail to create the creepy anticipation that well-developed characters and a tight plot would. What they do manage to create is a nagging sense that the film is aiming to insult the viewer’s intelligence...
...honesty, I must commend this administration for having some valiant goals in mind. It seems to want improved teaching fellows, better planning for larger classes and more thoughtful advising in the course selection process. However, the pseudo-preregistration system that is in the works may very well accomplish none of these goals. And in the process, the new culture of course selection will only cheapen and further commodify a Harvard education...
...those faculty members choose to listen to them is another issue. Many computer science concentrators have told me they could probably write an algorithm based on CUE Guide scores and other factors like what the Core office uses to make accurate estimates. I am simply unconvinced that the proposed pseudo-preregistration will yield more accurate numbers than is possible today...
...Spee is pseudo-open,” Webb said. “Other than that, nothing’s open...