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...said she was in favor of a "strong, NATO-led force" to reinstate Kosovar refugees in their homeland, and advocated a harsh punishment for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dole Speaks at Business School Class Day | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...speech at the 1988 Democratic Convention, Jackson was quite candid about the harsh realities of his youth...

Author: By Jesse Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Always in the Spotlight, Jackson Does Politics His Own Way | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...DeLay's views on psychology are a bit harsh, many Americans have only in the past decade begun to see mental disorders as illnesses, not moral shortcomings. Though we still whisper about it, we all know a Tipper Gore at work today. Indeed, in addition to pushing her policy goals, Gore is hoping her own story will nourish this cultural shift. She and other reformers want to convince the nation that mental illness doesn't result from bad parenting or lax churchgoing but from chemical imbalances. In Gore's case, she says there was a problem with her brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mental Health Reform: What It Would Really Take | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...powerful swat. To suppress the Palestinian uprising against occupation, he sent undercover units into the West Bank and Gaza Strip to hunt down underground leaders; human-rights groups called them death squads. To quell terrorist attacks, he supported the 1992 deportation to Lebanon of 415 Palestinian Hamas militants, a harsh collective punishment that inflamed international opinion and was in time reversed. In 1993, as part of Israel's unavailing struggle to crush south Lebanon's Islamist militia Hizballah, he launched Operation Accountability, ruthlessly flattening Lebanese villages and killing 127 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gruff And Very Tough | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...squeamish, and it is not a relaxing bedtime read. However, if you are hardened enough to read through the gore and carnage, you will become mesmerized by the ferocious prose. Teran writes without inhibitions and without softening his subject matter, and while his style is harsh, the force behind it will capture even the most reluctant reader...

Author: By Emily SUMMER Dill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Somewhere in Sands of the Desert | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

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