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Ironically, the staff bemoans the "vague" and "uncertain" status of Epps' proposals but then indulges in hollow generalizations like the need for a "courageous" person with "charisma" to serve as Harvard's race relations czar. Perhaps the staff should consider someone like Robespierre. He had courage and charisma...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Only Students Can Solve Racial Problems | 12/11/1992 | See Source »

...best moments occur with most of the cast on stage. No stilted choreography mars the action. With a few exceptions (notably the hollow scenes featuring only loving couple Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo or only Yum-Yum and her two maids), director Michele Travis smoothly guides her cast through a three-hour long performance...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Complex? No Problem For G & S | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

...Harvard's stature and the media's lavish praise have made the Core one of the most influential curricula in America, but it is hollow," continued Caleb Nelson '88, who is currently a third-year student at Yale Law School...

Author: By Daniel M. Steinman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Core Curriculum Still Controversial | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...kind of sexism that many in the military still cherish as "virility" and "blowing off steam." The one great victory of recent years, Desert Storm, was so quick and total that it scarcely tested the mettle of troops, and the persistence of Saddam Hussein makes the triumph appear almost hollow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mind-Set Under Siege | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...hard to map where America was going when there had been no real assessment of where the country had been. The fall of the Soviet Union came so rapidly that surprise and relief blotted out analysis. Could anything come to pieces so fast if it had not been essentially hollow? Had we been scaring ourselves with bogeys? The evidence is very strong that the "window of vulnerability" that Reagan armed us against was as false an alarm as the missile gap in Kennedy's day and the bomber gap in Eisenhower's. Had we outspent not only our enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Reaganism | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

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