For the last thirty years the machinery of college admissions has solved the administrative problem created by America's surfeit of smart and eager high-school students by inventing new, pedagogically empty ways for them to compete with one another, laying out new grounds on which they might fight one another.
But that's a rather the-glass-is-half-empty way of looking at it: A Pew poll from earlier this year showed that 85percentt of young Catholics are "accepting" of homosexuality, and what's more, a majority of all Catholics believe in evolution.
Because flying is an empty, soulless way to traverse the planet, the best flights are in fact the ones you forget immediately after hitting the tarmac.
Page A22 THE EMPTY WHITE WAY The latest of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's city planning experiments will close several blocks of Broadway around Times Square and Herald Square, said several people briefed on the plan.
In a sense, Harper (dressed in "Gap casuals") stands for the hip, knowing, self-conscious, weary, ironied-out, so-like-over-it-and-two-steps-ahead-of-it West, whose empty, hedonistic way of living once plagued Rose.
After an orientation and several interviews, Witt tried the practice herself and found herself feeling empty, the way she did after more regrettable hookups.
So the experience left me half empty in way with a sense that the project was done - but only half done.
So farmhouses, schools, farming towns, even Mr. Scott's beloved barns emptied, making way in some cases for the long, low, plain buildings used in modern large-scale livestock operations.
The V8's bin is quite small, by virtue of the whole unit being small, but it was big enough to do a complete house clean without needing to be emptied part way through.
