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...Never Again: Make Harvard Mean It This Time" slogan rings a bit hollow, as the drive does nothing to stop or even slow the conflict in Bosnia, which is why these poor people aren't getting anything to eat but still receive 100 times the U.S. RDA for lead...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Feeding the Bleeding | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...rang with the sort of cries for blood that can make continued talk of peace a hollow mockery. "Today is for the Jews, but tomorrow is for us," vowed a Palestinian on the sacred grounds of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock. Even Freih Abu Middain, the normally moderate head of the bar association in the Gaza Strip, talked of future bloodshed: "Had this massacre happened after we had a Palestinian police force, we would be going into the Jewish settlements and killing at least 100 people there. Our people will not remain silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fury Rules | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

Does North Korea have the bomb, and if it does, what should be done about it? Kim Il Sung offered an essentially hollow capitulation last week, a promise to permit inspections of all but the key nuclear sites, which could settle the matter. So the world -- and Bill Clinton -- will be left to ponder those questions, perhaps indefinitely. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Playing Nuclear Poker | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...cast surrounding Hector approaches satire, it is perhaps as his situation dictates. They are all around him, and they are with him, but not for long. Only his death will remain, and it only will have any substance. In this sense they can only be hollow...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Kondoleon's Lost Boy Laughs at Death | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

Progressive as we may feel when we look at ourselves in the mirror, as the old saying goes, clothes do not make the man (or women or androgyne). All the 1970s-era "accessories" merely serve to obscure our hollow core...

Author: By Jaques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Of Sideburns and Platform Shoes | 2/15/1994 | See Source »

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