Word: purport
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Popular culture suggests that Harvard is the place to be. U.S. News & World Report places Harvard at the top of its college rankings. Films like Legally Blonde purport that we can be smart, glamorous and happy all at the same time. Platitudes tell us we should be having the time of our lives. And yet the National Institute of Health reports that in 2002, 69 percent of Harvard students felt exhausted up to 10 times during the year, 65 percent felt overwhelmed by all they had to do and 48 percent felt things were hopeless...
...society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.” The “public good” that students “thinking like activists” purport to advocate, while sneering at their classmates’ pettily provincial ambitions, is best achieved by means of self-interest. Activists trumpet the best outcome for humanity and curse the common people who realize it, all in the same breath...
These ID cards do not falsely purport to be state-issued—like ones the under-21 crowd might use to try to buy alcohol. They do not assist their cardholders in breaking the law, but rather to help alleviate the difficulty of day-to-day living in society...
...person (gee, I don’t know anyone else like that) could have been admitted to Harvard, are no way to learn anything useful from the matter. Indeed, such actions reflect the very arrogance and hypocrisy that are both cause and symptom of the disgraceful behavior they purport to condemn...
...military action to topple the Iraqi regime. Those hoping France and Germany would be swayed by Secretary of State Colin Powell’s influential address to the U.N. on Baghdad’s lethal technology and connections to al Qaeda have been disappointed. The French and the Germans purport to have the most high-minded of motives, yet in reality their policies are driven by factors no less crass and practical than those that compelled London and Paris to appease Mussolini...