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The editorial added that "if the Israeli delegation returns from America empty-handed, a lot of explaining will have to be done."
Stephen Moore, an anti-doomsaying scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute, told Chatterbox that six months earlier a research assistant he'd asked to find a copy came back empty-handed.
Checking the Web and Lexis-Nexis for the people and organizations mentioned in Glass' articles, you do not come up empty-handed.
He'd begin a lecture showing two photographs: one of a white man holding a knife; the other of a black man empty-handed.
In fact, reporters who have been trying very hard to unearth evidence that the contributions were illegal, or that the Clintons' connection to the Riady clan has had an effect on American foreign policy, have so far come up empty-handed.