Word: pretender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about doing to boaters what I tried to do to everyone else in Bloom County: reveal the lunacy we pretend isn't there. I, of course, would normally have nothing to do with things like boats, but for research reasons I had to buy one. Four, actually...
...POLITICAL economy of the '80s will also be written by its victors. Democrats will de-emphasize the control of the House of Representatives over the budget process, and Republicans may pretend their presidents never singed any budgets. Perhaps if Ronald "no recollection" Reagan wins, the eighties won't be remembered...
Jerusalem has been in the middle of a game of hot potato ever since. The main obstacle: how to assemble a Palestinian delegation that gives Arafat a voice but allows Israel to pretend that the P.L.O. is not party to negotiations. So far, no formula has been found. While the U.S. is growing impatient with Shamir's delaying tactics, President Bush appears unwilling to expend his political capital by pressuring Shamir. Privately, many U.S. officials have concluded that Shamir is incapable of compromise...
...that the treatment of West Bank Palestinians is "undemocratic," then I think he would get little argument from any side; the West Bank is under military occupation--a consequence of Jordan's unsuccessful surprise attack during the Six Day War--and as a result does not even pretend to live under the same rules as the Israeli democracy. Many right-wing Israelis would indeed like to rectify this situation by annexing the territories and including the Palestinians in the state, a solution I assume is unpalatable to most of us at Harvard. Within Israel, democracy itself, as a form...
THIS is a terrifying prospect for American Zealots, who want their country to stand behind the Jewish state no matter how grievously it sins. As Israel becomes less democratic, it deprives the Zealots of the ability to pretend that their support for Israel is anything more than their support for a Jewish state...