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...WHILE IT SOUNDED LIKE A REVERSE AUCTION IN billions: 16, 13, 8, 6 . . . In reality, though, all the compromise figures bruited around were hollow. The 43 Republican Senators were adamant, and the Democrats did not have the votes to break their filibuster. After repeated failures they gave up and accepted a simple $4 billion extension of unemployment benefits -- a shrunken remnant of the President's $16 billion economic-stimulus package. It was Clinton's first significant loss in Congress, and it demonstrated that to get his programs passed, he must either win over some Republicans or raise enough public clamor...
Like every other trend in pop music, the new pot proselytizing has inspired its own paraphernalia. Some aficionados hollow out Phillies Blunt cigars and fill them with dope. (For those unsure of the technique, rapper Redman's new song How to Roll a Blunt provides instructions.) PHILLIES BLUNT T shirts have gone mainstream, sometimes topped off with the marijuana-leaf baseball caps that have replaced X caps as the hot hat on the street...
...Commencement Day, when Powell talks about his experiences as the nation's first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, his inspiring words will sound hollow to anyone who believes that gays and lesbians deserve the same opportunities that Powell...
...then allow me to indict my own. One reason for the apathy at Harvard, which I am arguing is reflected in the percentage return and general vapidness of CUE evaluations, is grade inflation. Most students will not complain about a decent grade even if they think it is a hollow one. Who can blame them for that? I freely admit (for the second time now) that I am part of this trend to inflate grades. And I reiterate that nothing will change this except increased direct involvement of tenured faculty in the related processes of grading students and evaluating...
...Having insisted in Congressional testimony on March 2 that the people "want details, not soundbites," should Perot abandon his hollow rhetoric in favor of specific proposals...