Word: harsher
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...humanity capable of such an undertaking?Is it not a hopelessly utopian idea? Haven't we solost control of our destiny that we are condemnedto gradual extinction in ever harsher high-techclashes between cultures, because of our fatalinability to to co-operate in the face ofimpending catastrophes, be they ecological, socialor demographic, or of dangers generated by thestate of our civilization as such...
...also just after thenew Massachusetts laws regarding possession ofalcohol by a minor were passed, which didn't helpthe two first-years. They had to presentstatements to the Ad Board and meet with theirsenior advisor. It should have been a routinecase. Instead, Brent and Dave were landed withprobation, a harsher punishment that the onedescribed in the User's Guide for similar cases...
Braunstein also says he supports the additionof a jury of one's peers, although he admitsstudents would probably have been harsher on himdue to his affiliation with The Crimson. Studentsare actually on the Student-Faculty JudiciaryCommittee, which conducts open hearings, but theyhear only new cases never dealt with before by theAd Board. In most cases, Senior Tutors do not evensuggest the Committee as on option. The User'sGuide states "No disciplinary case may proceed ifthe student charged has not had a chance to makethis decision." However, a few students havecomplained they were not informed of thepossibility until after going before...
...sorbing. The sense of a voracious emotional need that beats behind some of Fairweather's coolest and most "classical" friezelike paintings is nothing other than the desire for integration, resolved in art as formal harmony-but imperiled and sometimes overset, because it bore the print of a harsher, more primal necessity...
DIED. ERIC WRIGHT, 31, rapper; of complications from AIDS; in Los Angeles. His steely, insistent tenor made "Eazy-E" one of the instantly identifiable elements of N.W.A., the rap group that took the genre to the harsher heights of "gangsta rap," with profane language and violent imagery that kept the music off radio stations and marching out of stores. Following N.W.A.'s dissolution, Wright began a second career as solo artist, producer--and a truly offbeat dabbler in Republican politics...