Word: hollowness
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Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. would reduce abortion rights to a “hollow shell” if he were confirmed to the Supreme Court, Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 told the Senate Judiciary Committee on the final day of the nominee’s hearings last week...
Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. would reduce abortion rights to a “hollow shell” if he were confirmed to the Supreme Court, Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 told the Senate Judiciary Committee on the final day of the nominee’s hearings yesterday...
...Justice Alito, the court will cut back on Roe v. Wade step by step—not just to the point where, as the moderate American center has it, abortion is cautiously restricted—but to the point where the fundamental, underlying right to liberty becomes a hollow shell,” Tribe said in his testimony...
...hoped his offers on agriculture would kick-start negotiations on trade in services and industrial tariffs, but the talks barely moved. European farm protection was once again seen as the biggest global obstacle to free and fair trade, and the E.U.'s claims to leadership in the wto sounded hollow. So is there any chance that 2006 will be brighter? "Economic reform is the A and Z of Europe now," says MacShane. Perhaps once the big Continental economies pick up, he suggests, Europe can feel its oats again. Others doubt whether Europe's current crisis-laden leadership has the clout...
...courts. Some of this can be explained as a natural reaction to the trauma following the attacks on New York City and Washington. But with Cheney himself lobbying to exclude the cia from future restrictions on torture abroad, excuses about the special nature of that time ring hollow. The irony is that the controversy Washington has unleashed by its conduct threatens to undermine real achievements in the struggle against terror. A case in point is rendition. That's a practice that involves the transfer of a terror suspect from one country to another outside the formal extradition process. The overwhelming...