And Hollywood's usually pretty good at playing pretend games like that -- except when it's not.

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For instance, some immigration restrictionists are still playing pretend.

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The intellectual class pontificates their theories playing with pretend money impervious to the disruptions they unleash.

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They all tilt the playing field and to pretend otherwise is silly.

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Within an hour, an American major arrived at a mock Iraqi town, where he advised a pretend raid by actors playing Iraqi soldiers.

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The company uses role-playing exercises to train the new workers, asking them to pretend to be guests and requiring them to reserve limousines to the airport.

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But although running Bain Capital required a lot more brains and savvy than playing roulette does a lot more brains and savvy than most of us could even pretend to possess the job was not conceptually deep.

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