Word: harsher
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Amidst the media firestorm, many students said they felt that grading was harsher last year than in previous years...
...woman, fighters from the Free Aceh Movement. Clashes in the province of Aceh, in northwestern Sumatra, also claimed the lives of three civilians in a grenade blast, as well as three more rebels. Indonesia's Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited the province to decide whether to impose harsher measures to end the 26-year insurgency. A U.S. official in the Indonesian capital Jakarta warned that the spiraling violence in Aceh could harm attempts to restore full military ties between the two nations. PAPUA NEW GUINEA Chaotic Two men were shot and then hacked to pieces in continuing violence surrounding...
...some special forces for Tora Bora. They bestride the world as if it were the Rose Garden of the White House - all theirs." In less polite circles, such as those that turned Berlin into an anti-American free-for-all while George W. visited last week, the message is harsher. The funniest poster read: "Peace for the World, Pretzels for Bush." Others called him a "war monger" who was "not welcome," his face circled in red and bisected by a slashing red line. Some placards accused him of slaughtering the innocents of Afghanistan under the pretext of fighting terrorism...
...calls, made in hazardous circumstances. Expertise in small-arms infantry tactics as well as ethical acuity enters the mix. The bulldozing of booby-trapped buildings in Jenin has been questioned by some international critics. But the Israelis say they warned occupants to evacuate first and chose to avoid far harsher measures, such as air power. And houses, unlike shattered human bodies in suicide bombings, can be rebuilt. Suicide bombings don't warrant reprisals against civilians, under the norms of international humanitarian law, but they do warrant urgent measures of self-defense...
...enunciate positions for the Republican Party as the future House majority leader. DeLay met with Bush after the Missouri speech. Bush told him he understood that DeLay was voicing Republican frustration with the administration's Middle East policy and appreciated that his criticism hadn't taken a harsher tone...