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Let us not confuse a lack of progress with official complicity.Jonathan TaylorLondonDissent on communismSIR – Although ostensibly fair, your obituary of Alexander Zinoviev suffers from a misunderstanding of a good deal of dissident literature from the Soviet Union and other so-called communist countries (May 20th).

Of course, in a world in which everybody's love life is ostensibly fair game, "Stephen Fry" was trending this morning on Twitter, and while Fry tweeted that he was very grateful for congratulatory messages – including from the actor Robert Webb, activist Peter Tatchell and pianist James Rhodes – plenty of people were quick to call out the age gap.

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Over the last three decades, a growing body of research has shown that racial stereotypes play a powerful role in judgments made by ostensibly fair-minded people.

Apparently, fair is fair.

The criminal lengths Lamb goes to are merely an endgame example of how the small amount of power granted to a utopian, altruistic individual would still corrupt, how even in a world where everybody, ostensibly, got a fair share, there would still be one person with a greater amount of influence.

Ms. Morton studies in detail how the fair's ostensibly authentic pavilions actually deformed the originals on which they were based.

Drawing in 50,000 camels and 200,000 people, the fair is ostensibly when Rajasthani farmers gather to buy and sell their camels, cattle and horses - most of the trading, however, is completed in the days leading up to the fair.

To be fair, he ostensibly had more important things on his mind than the fate of some stupid umbrella, like what he planned to say at a campaign rally later that day in Illinois, which he went ahead with even though the nation had been rocked by a mass shooting just hours earlier.

The 1939 World's Fair was held ostensibly to commemorate the 150th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration, but a major goal was to shake Americans from the pessimism of the Depression.

AntiTrust was widely panned, because of its ostensibly ludicrous plot (and, to be fair, bad acting).

Yes, a new generation and a new paradigm now bends and even breaks those rules -- and that's a very good thing -- but the fact that they exist at all proves that NBC ostensibly gives a crap about being fair.

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