Community colleges' honors programs, usually half-empty,have, in the Post's words,exploded.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

Community colleges' honors programs, usually half-empty, have,in the Post's words,exploded.

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In the 16th minute, McAlister dispossessed Wallace but ended up sending his cross to an empty back post.

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But The Washington Post snarls, An empty-calorie clone, and The Miami Herald snaps, The worst kind of sequel, the kind that exists only to give you more, more, more of what you liked the first time around without ever justifying its existence.

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As the sun dipped to the horizon on Friday, and the temperature dropped with it, the Marines moved the command post to a neighboring compound, an empty corral with eight-foot mud-and-rock walls.

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