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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...
...Being Happy in an Unhappy World to The Lazy Person's Guide to Happiness, from the Buddhist Eight Steps to Happiness to I'd Rather Laugh: How to Be Happy Even When Life Has Other Plans for You (by Linda Richman, Mike Myers' mother-in-law), hundreds of books purport to help you feel a bit better. They speak to a primal yearning in the species. "Human beings want to have meaning," says Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania psychologist and director of the Positive Psychology Network. "They want not to wake up in the morning with a gnawing realization that...
...alas, few jobs are more suited to a Harvard student’s skill set upon graduation. Thanks to classes with long reading lists and no sourcebooks, the photocopying prowess of Harvard grads is stunning, rivaled only by their light-speed typing and gourmet coffee preparation technique. Harvard may purport to be training future leaders, but in practice, students have to log long hours with the Lamont photocopiers instead of being able to ponder great theoretical works...