So why does Mr. Khamenei, the paramount leader, even bother with the charade of popular elections?
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That helped keep the charade going until news of Fastow's off-the-books paychecks emerged in 2001.
At a recent conference in Qatar, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine's president, tried to stop the charade.
For the charade to continue, borrowers pretended they could pay and lenders pretended that they would be paid.
Robert DeNiro plays a spin doctor who hires Dustin Hoffman (as a Hollywood producer) to oversee the charade.
It's difficult to get very engaged by the charade of interplay in which these children are supposedly engaged.
But for the two authors of the charade, Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak, it was only the beginning.
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It exposes the charade playing out in Congress over the war in Iraq.
Assuming this gesture was not part of the charade, he needn't have bothered.
The habitual doctoring of books and records, the fictitious trades, the phantom accounts were the core of the charade.
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Still, the very fact that Mr Ben Ali is going through the charade suggests that he is responding to pressure for change.
At a minimum, it could refuse to go along with the charade that the country is still a democracy with free elections.
We should end the charade that says there is a "local" phone business and that it is separate from the "interstate" phone business.
One of the reasons banks may have been willing to go along with the charade was the need to fulfill their quotas when it came to boosting SME lending.
These guys specialize in designing incentives, long-term this, short-term that, stock options, retirement, supplemental retirement, non-qualified whatever which is all part of the charade that must be acted out.
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Their main goal is to preserve the charade that she is a potential leader: Miss Megawati appeals to ordinary Indonesians because she is the daughter of Sukarno, Indonesia's first president.
"He has set aside the charade of Kyoto and he is saying we can do it in a better way, a more responsible way, " said Hagel, who issued a bipartisan resolution in 1997 against the protocol.
He gets his cranky sister and a group of embarrassed neighbors to take part in the charade, going so far as to work with a filmmaker buddy on fake news broadcasts about the unending triumphs of a regime that no longer exists.
After which, the blindfold was to be put back on and the whole charade repeated for the return journey back to the London studio.
According to the report, the SEC started the whole charade by delegating its authority over accounting principles back in 1938.
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The programme is a charade because the CIA never admits to it and Pakistan pretends that it does not co-operate.
From Lula's perspective, there is no reason to participate in the US charade of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
But the biggest shift (though the hardest to measure) appears to be under way among ordinary Thais who are tiring of the royal charade.
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Once again, Congress failed to stop the annual charade of scheduled Medicare physician payment cuts and short-term patches, which spends more taxpayer money to perpetuate a policy everyone agrees is fatally flawed.
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Our first official forecast of 2011 is a slam-dunk: Facebook and Goldman will fleece millions of Americans of their retirement funds, maybe not this year, maybe not next but before they are done with the whole charade.
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They are begging you to look beyond the two party charade and to a future that can be created by the people.
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