Word: harshness
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...superwomen,” today, we fail to recognize the full continuum of choices and options that are open to young females. Particularly at Harvard, where we have the freedom to dream, to engage ourselves with almost anything we choose, all the while protected from many of the harsh realities of this world, we ought to be more free-spirited in the way we envision our futures...
...example, should smack Bush squarely in the face when he visits U.S. allies Colombia and Guatemala this weekend. Scandals there - one involving Colombian senators allegedly in league with drug-trafficking paramilitary armies, and another implicating Guatemala's national police in the murder of three Salvadoran congressmen - are another harsh reminder that, despite what so many in Washington seem to think, elections alone don't constitute a democratic society...
Britain's so-called "cash for honors" inquiry has shone a harsh spotlight on the House of Lords - the country's unelected upper house - and the system of political patronage that keeps its red-leather benches stocked. More than 600 Lords and Ladies are politically appointed and they sit alongside 92 peers whose only qualification for public office is that they inherited titles originally conferred on their ancestors back in the days when nobody saw the harm in rewarding loyalty with the odd tongue-twisting honorific and a few dozen serfs. Together with archbishops, bishops and legal chiefs, this motley...
...powerful search engine, he would have been lucky to get a couple hundred hits, most of them tied to other Nate Derns out there in cyberspace. Now, such a self-indulgent activity yields around 200,000 hits.Nonetheless, Dern, Harvard’s biggest reality-TV star, has learned a harsh lesson in the past few weeks: after the cameras go off, you’re just another face in the crowd.MAKE-BELIEVEA joint Social Anthropology and Religion concentrator and lead singer of Star Wars tribute band So Long Princess, Dern found sudden notoriety this winter thanks to his appearance...
...notch hospital for soldiers wounded in the line of duty Walter Reed bridges two very different worlds - that of medicine and that of the military. It may seem harsh that recovering casualties have to assemble for formation at 5 a.m. But it is the army, after...