Word: harshness
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...It’s an Honors department with a capital H, meaning that you have to write a thesis to graduate, as well as pass an oral examination at the end of your senior year. Graduates tell themselves that a Hist and Lit degree provides caché, though the harsh reality is that those outside Harvard’s fold will just assume that you majored in History and minored in Lit.At least while you’re at Harvard you’ll be a hotshot, though—the department is all about academia, meaning that your professors...
...rather abstract: you’ll look at different ways Enlightenment writers conceived of and depicted the “self.” Damrosch is dynamite as always—you’ll learn a lot in this course—but the grading is pretty harsh and the concepts tackled are difficult to write about. If you’re trying to get out of the Core area without any serious work, you would do better choosing a class with more straightforward texts...
...Syrian man who worked in the building from which the fatal shot was fired, and who may have had al-Qaeda sympathies. The FBI investigates other leads, but, as with the events after 9/11, Dick Cheney, now President, uses the tenuous al-Qaeda connection to push his own harsh agenda. He calls for a Patriot Act 3, suspending most civil liberties, and for military engagement with Syria. An already grotesque world situation keeps growing tesquer...
...Mahmoud Abbas having much to talk about given the gulf that divides them at present, there's an additional peril: The more radical elements of Hamas and Fatah have traditionally responded to any movement toward rapprochement or renewed negotiations by launching new acts of violence aimed at provoking harsh Israeli retaliation and, as a result, sabotaging progress. And the political aftermath of Lebanon for the Israeli leader suggests it's unlikely that any such provocation will go unpunished. So, while the leaders do their best to look busy on the peace front, they are unlikely right now to transcend their...
...East Room, Bush unveiled his story line: essentially, I have brought these captives out of the darkness of CIA "black site" prisons to get things started legally; you, the Congress, must approve my proposal for a very narrowly proscribed military tribunal to dispose of them. He added that the harsh interrogation methods were not illegal, were often productive and were something he had reserved the right to order again, ostensibly through the CIA. Meanwhile, across the Potomac, a Pentagon panel met the press to disclose the 16 "old school" ways that would be acceptable methods of interrogation for detainees coming...