Word: harsher
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...abuses and progressive movements worldwide. The Weblog’s first news summary featured a link to a Zmag.org article comparing the Israeli Defense Forces to the Nazi military. Bur Larochelle stresses that his controversial weblog isn’t specifically aimed against Israel, and that it levels even harsher criticism against other U.S.-backed regimes with checkered human rights records...
...bogus academic posts. The more genteel rules of traditional espionage do not apply to NOCs. When the Soviets caught a diplomat doing spy work during the cold war, they roughed him up a little and sent him home. Unmasked NOCs, on the other hand, have met with much harsher fates: CIA officer Hugh Redmond was caught in Shanghai in 1951 posing as an employee of a British import-export company and spent 19 years in a Chinese prison before dying there. In early 1995 the French rolled up five CIA officers, including a woman who had been working...
Five People is a harsher and maybe more honest book than Morrie. Morrie was about understanding life. Five People is about accepting the fact that true understanding is not the lot of the living. "Everybody walks around with a bunch of questions that aren't answered," Albom says, sounding genuinely upset about it. "And they never get the answers. They just go right through to the end of their life and never...
...person group Radio 4, hailing from Brooklyn, performs dance tracks from their highly-acclaimed 2001 CD Gotham. The Natural History is a pop trio from New York known for music that represents the harsher side of the city that never sleeps. 8 p.m. $10; 18+. The Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass...
...their defense, U.S. officials say they are much harsher with the oil-rich royal family in private than they would ever be in public. And they add that Riyadh is finally beginning, after years of denial, to realize that it must pull its head out of the sand and actively join the war on terrorism. The May 12 bombings of two Western enclaves in Riyadh have moved the Saudi government to take the threat seriously. "Things were progressing on the counterterrorism front with the Saudis before May 12," said the former Bush aide, "and things have continued to get better...