Word: harshest
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Reacting to the most authoritative affirmation to date of the role of human activity in causing global warming, environmentally-oriented students and faculty at Harvard were agreed: Global warming is real, but there is still much that can be done about it. In its harshest assessment yet of humans’ impact on the environment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body made up of government representatives and scientific experts, released a summary of its fourth report on Friday, concluding with “very high confidence” that humans have had a significant role...
...That sprint, however brief, was a respite from an otherwise self-conscious existence. I regularly bare my soul to thousands online. But it wasn’t until I bared everything else that I made peace with my harshest critic: myself...
...girl in Franco's Spain seeks refuge from her vicious militarist stepfather by retreating into a woodland wonderland. Guillermo del Toro mixes the airiest fantasy with the harshest social realism to prove that fascism is a fairy tale of power and a nightmare of terror...
...make the choice Vargas did and the world yawns. Mom would love Couric and Vargas because she would know how tough it is to do what they do as journalists and why it's even harder to do their jobs as women. She probably would have also been their harshest critics too since she believed the reason the prize is worth having is that it isn't given to you easily and your performance should not be evaluated uncritically...
...official language and fine landlords who rent to illegal immigrants. In Austin, meanwhile, Republicans began trooping into the state Capitol with stacks of bills aimed at cutting off benefits to illegal aliens, taxing their remittances south of the border, and requiring proof of citizenship at the voting booth. The harshest bill would deny welfare and other benefits even to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens - rights supposedly given them under the 14th Amendment. Latino groups, who were only recently being wooed by Republican candidates, were left aghast at the onslaught, calling it "a hate campaign" against immigrants and "anti...