Word: hollowness
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...Stunned opposition parties anticipating a long and loud campaign against Gandhi tried to claim they forced her hand. But their crowing sounded hollow, and hypocritical: only one of 43 other MPs accused of breaking the same rules on conflict of interest agreed to follow Gandhi's example and also step down. "Once again she's shown she is the one person to whom power genuinely does not mean anything," said Hindustan Times editorial director Vir Sanghvi. "Whatever authority she has derives from that morality...
...strategic interests.” According to Ebadi, “The possibility of a foreign military attack…represents an utter disaster for [our] cause.”In light of the ongoing human rights disaster in Iraq, progressives of all stripes should be wary of the hollow invocation of democracy and freedom by those who have no interest in either. The “Freedom Concert’s” ties to off-campus pro-war organizations, and its own deafening silence on the question of invasion fails to avoid this very trap.Alireza Doostdar...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: At summer camp when I was 13 I convinced this girl that I only weighed 40 pounds, because I was a mutant and had hollow bones like a bird...
...Heer says his Italian connection "has made it easier to make the sorts of films I like to make." Which brings us back to the other wall clock: Adelaide. At first it might seem strange that Australia's riskiest filmmaker should choose to reside in this relatively sleepy hollow. But as with his seemingly free-form films, nothing in De Heer's life is without a purpose...
...Dayan Jayatilleka as he witnessed soldiers' donating blood for Tamils in the days after the tsunami. He said, "It was a magical moment. Then it was gone." Despite such pessimism, Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could still be prevented from returning to civil war if everyone would reject the hollow argument that the Sinhalese and Tamils are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. That false division was based on the idea that the two groups could not live under a single administration because neither cared to learn the other's language. But today many people in the Tamil-dominated northern capital, Jaffna...