Word: harshest
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...produce much serious opposition in the U.S. Whatever liberals may feel about American policy, it's hard to find any who actually sympathize with bin Laden, a man whose dream of a world where women are kept at home, where every area of life conforms to the harshest reading of Scripture, sounds too much like Jerry Falwell's idea of Utopia. So Bennett is reduced to shadowboxing tiny opponents. He pulls quotes from the occasional dissenting Op-Ed piece, whips the tattered scarecrow of Noam Chomsky and rescues us from "the militant black activist Lorenzo Komboa Ervin." Lorenzo...
Clinton saved her harshest criticism for President Bush’s tax policy, saying that in light of the costs of the war on terrorism, she thinks “it does not make sense” to go ahead with tax cuts that were passed before Sept...
...landscape certainly looks bleak at first glance. Yet in another sense, these photogrpahs humanize science itself. Even reduced to its most basic components of muscle, joint and skin, no hand is remotely similar to any other. Schneider’s accomplishment lies in the consolation that despite even the harshest scientific conditions, the individual characteristics of the hands and lips shine through...
...Those comments were the harshest yet directed at Israel by the Bush administration. But they're hardly surprising given the broader concerns that have forced the White House to take on the role of Mideast peace enforcer it had so strenuously avoided. Not that the U.S. is easing up on Arafat. "Failure on the part of the Palestinian Authority to confront terror in a decisive manner is absolutely unacceptable," said Reeker. But there's nothing new in that. What is new is the insistence that Sharon's tactics are unable to produce the calm Washington now desperately needs...
...Jean-Paul Sartre once said "It occurs to me that New York is about to acquire a history, that it already has its ruins. This to adorn with a little softness the harshest city in the world." Yes, we have our ruins. We also have our songwriters. In the glory days of Tin Pan Alley, so-called songpluggers used to accost vaudeville vocalists, pushing them to perform their new compositions in hopes that they would make them into hits. New York is still just as aggressive, just as hungry, when it comes to songwriting. If Sting (who has an apartment...