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...Where men and women and children go burdenedwith hunger, suffering from preventable diseases,languishing in ignorance and illiteracy, orfinding themselves bereft of decent shelter, talkof democracy and freedom that does not recognizethese material aspects can ring hollow and erodeconfidence exactly in these values which we seekto promote," Mandela said...
Five minutes of contrition might not have made up for months of deceit, but five minutes of evasiveness and anger certainly didn't. And his more recent attempts at contrition have rung hollow in the wake of his first failed speech...
...Greece, Rome and Israel were very far from bustling, nouveau-riche young America. Mount, a farmer's boy from Setauket, Long Island (a suburb today, deep country then), was very much part of that America, a country inventor who made his own boats and believed that a "hollow-backed" violin he had designed was better than anything from Cremona. Sensibly, he set out to record (and idealize) what he knew: the everyday rural life that was the protein of Jacksonian democracy at the dawn of the Age of the Common Man. He got an assist from Hogarth, whose prints...
Then the White House went dark. There's nothing so rare at the Executive Mansion as a quiet Saturday, when people can relax and Presidents actually get to play. But this was a whole new kind of quiet--hollow and grim. Clinton was looking, simultaneously, at the most dangerous prospect of his public life and the most devastating chapter of his private one. He canceled his plans for the weekend to prepare for his testimony; Hillary went into seclusion. She virtually locked herself in a room upstairs, forswearing visitors and talking to no one other than her mother and other...
Editorial pages throughout the nation fairly quivered with indignation Tuesday in response to President Clinton's Monday night speech. "Clinton's hollow apology puts nothing to rest," headlined USA Today. "How someone of such surpassing intellect and such protean political talents could indulge in such reckless conduct ... is not a new question," lamented the New York Times. "The currency of the presidency," said the Chicago Tribune, "has been devalued." The Miami Herald was even more scathing: "Bill Clinton looked America in the eye Monday night and defined himself as a liar...