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After the verdict, Judge John Kavanewsky denied Skakel bail and refused his request to address the court. Outside the courthouse, no one was celebrating. Martha's brother John called the victory hollow, saying: "It doesn't bring Martha back." Mickey Sherman, Skakel's lawyer, declared himself "bitterly disappointed" and discussed grounds for appeal. Said brother David: "Michael is innocent. I know this because I know Michael like only a brother does...
...both expected to come to a university and have it be perhaps sort of sleepy hollow,” Lloyd says, adding that they had “never worked harder...
...celebrating the man who suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War), and George W. Bush's statement that the terrorists hate us because of "our freedoms, our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other" rings, to Vidal, laughably hollow, since these words are coming from a man who, in Vidal's view, is doing more to damage the freedoms he purports to defend than Osama bin Laden could ever hope to do with a fleet of jumbo jets...
...President's rhetoric blind anyone to the memory that in 1999 he commanded the operation to seize strategic passes in the mountains of Kargil on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LOC). Moreover Musharraf's announcements of a crackdown on the militants ring more than a touch hollow. While five insurgent groups have been banned and bank accounts have been frozen, some of the arrested leaders have been freed, the bank accounts are reported to have been emptied before they were closed and the incursions and attacks inside Indian territory continue, including a December attack on Parliament...
Turner played his hollow-bodied bass guitar with such fervour it was hard to tell whether the booming, overblown sound was the result of a fuzz pedal or simply a guitar pushed to its limits, until it became all but indistinguishable from the thump of the bass drum. Hayes wiggled his hips in the prescribed provocative fashion, creating roiling layers of guitar haze in truly elegant style. The band wasn’t big on audience interaction, but from the heads bobbing in the audience, they didn’t need to be. Though technically opening for British art-rockers...