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...during their 10-year relationship, right up until the night Kay shot and killed Jackie, the couple was locked in an escalating cycle of violence and reconciliation. Though the story Kay tells is as dark and twisted as the road out to her family's house up No. 3 Hollow in Jeffrey, West Virginia, the evidence of the abuse she endured over 10 years is clear as day. In addition to the stories people who knew Jackie tell, in addition to chilling accounts by Kay and her two children, there are pages of police complaints. And there are the scars...
...suggests we are just too selfish and ambitious to handle an honor code. The Harvard community could not uphold an honor code because a significant number of its members are incapable of putting honor before "success." A good number of Harvard students have weak moral convictions; honor is a hollow word in their vocabularies and consequently they cannot be trusted to act honorably on their...
Meanwhile, Bill Clinton ran on his strong economic record, his resistance to Republican extremism and his proposals for reform. Voters re-elected him in a tremendous electoral landslide and a comfortable eight-point margin over Bob Dole. Bill Clinton's victory was not hollow. He put forth bold proposals, especially in the area of education. President Clinton wants to guarantee that every American student will be able to afford college, and his plan of tax breaks and deductions will help to achieve that goal. Hopefully, over the next two years, Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott will be able...
...Texaco's crime is so heinous and destructive to our communities and race relations in America that we must make it clear that its actions are not only illegal but also completely unacceptable to society in general. Otherwise, we run the risk of painting our anti-discrimination laws as hollow lip-service to racial equality that do not reflect the opinions of our citizens...
...that money on empty show. When rebel looters in Goma recently entered the President's local villa--a mansion Mobutu visited just once, but kept ready for his imminent return--they found a house full of plastic "marble" and fake antiques. Other expressions of his grandeur are not so hollow: he owns chateaus in Spain and Belgium, a town house in Paris and a horse ranch in Portugal. Such abuse of his country's strained wealth eventually turned him into an international pariah...