Word: harshly
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Meanwhile, harsh sentiment against the refugees is growing. "Nobody knows who all these people are," says Brownsville trailer-court owner Bob White. "They could be terrorists, or bandits, or typhoid carriers." Harlingen Mayor Bill Card says his city decided to expel the INS from a registration post to send a signal to the Bush Administration that the area needs more help from Washington. Says he: "We have not been able to get the cooperation and attention of the Federal Government...
...offend any true Muslim. Rushdie points out that his work is fictional and the two most offensive chapters merely recount the demented dreams of one of its characters. But in the eyes of believers, both historical and religious truth have come under an unprecedented assault. Their reaction is especially harsh because Rushdie was raised a Muslim. Says Professor Georges Sabagh, director of the center for Near Eastern studies at UCLA: "He's engaged in the worst kind of blasphemy. He's a renegade, an apostate...
...blending of impressionistic cinematography with the realism of the harsh farm life, paired with a character study script, that make Pelle the Conqueror a 19th century novel on screen...
This chameleon style may be a shrewd defense mechanism, designed to mask the harsh reality that Bush is more constrained than any other President in modern memory. The borrow-and-spend policies that Ronald Reagan presided over have bequeathed to his chosen successor a downsized presidency devoid of the resources to address long neglected domestic problems. The Bush campaign strategists -- with the candidate's active complicity -- burdened the new President with an obdurate stance on taxes. And for all of Bush's conciliatory zeal, Congress remains an enemy camp; no elected Republican President in this century has come into office...
Israeli officials condemned the report as "harsh" and "one-sided," but did not dispute the particulars. Instead they argued that the U.S. had ignored the "constant provocations" by "extremist elements." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir charged that the "media exaggerate" and said that "the behavior of our army is equal to that of any other army in the Western world...