Word: harsher
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Charles Muscatine, a professor of English at Berkeley and member of a committee that is analyzing liberal arts curriculums for the Association of American Colleges, is even harsher. He calls today's educational programs "a marvelous convenience for a mediocre society." The key goal of education, says Muscatine, should be "informed decision making that recognizes there is a moral and ethical component to life." Instead, he says, most universities are "propagating the dangerous myth that technical skills are more important than ethical reasoning...
Although Abdullah is a harsher critic of U.S. policy than Fahd, Washington officials are not concerned. The State Department said last week, "Abdullah has done nothing to make us uneasy about his relationship with the West. In any event, the Saudis rule by consensus, which is bigger than the government and certainly bigger than...
...private, however, Khomeini, 82 and ailing, is said to have a harsher plan in mind for Arab governments that choose to side with Iraq against Iran. Three weeks ago, he told colleagues that Iran has a right to go into the territory of any government that is engaging in war against Iran. Last week Khomeini said publicly: "I warn the governments of the region to deal with us according to the tenets of Islam. Otherwise, if their behavior should require the enforcement of Koranic injunctions, we shall enforce God's command." Added Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani...
...Black Madonna pins represents a misuse of Poland's national colors. The authorities have fined badge wearers as much as 5,000 zlotys ($60), or about half the average monthly wage. The same penalty applies to anyone caught organizing a newswalk. Some methods of retaliation are even harsher. Students arrested in demonstrations are routinely expelled from school. After workers at Swidnik's factory joined a 15-minute work stoppage on May 13, some strikers received pink slips. But the Poles show little sign of yielding to this kind of government pressure. Churches throughout Poland have become collection points...
...rhetoric of the belligerents grew harsher, U.N. Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar, facing his first frontline test as the U.N.'s top diplomat, was attempting to ease the tension. Perez de Cuellar had assumed responsibility for mediating the dispute on April 30, after a month-long peace-keeping effort by U.S. Secretary of State Haig ended in failure. Perez's peace proposals do not differ markedly from those originally put forward by Haig. They include: 1) a ceasefire; 2) phased and corresponding withdrawal of Argentine troops and the British fleet; 3) establishment...