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Turk said that while HRE officials have in the past blamed a lack of attention to apartment repairs on serious fiscal constraints, the salary increases "reveal how hollow those claims...
...only efforts to resolve these enigmas of social responsibility are the graphic, tepid biographies of his heroes. With seven vivid examples of "mavericks who would not be silenced," the author whimpers through his point by implicit example. Unfortunately, the examples Mitchell chooses are banal and consequently they ring hollow. For example...
Faces and limbs freckled in every hollow, burnished on the ball of the shoulder, the tip of the nose . . . The light in their eyes stealing sparkle from the far hard edge...
LAST WEEK'S DECISION by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility seems a hollow victory at best. The ACSR opted to delay consideration of a proposal to lift Harvard's automatic ban on investments in banks that make loans to South Africa...
What they did was come within a three-wall bounce of beating one of the strongest squash teams put together since balls became hollow. Princeton's strength didn't dawn on anybody until Saturday's pairings took the court, but in retrospect, it's hard to believe we didn't notice earlier. (Fish probably had an inkling of the Tigers edge, wisely electing not to share it with his team...