Word: harshness
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...diplomats. After months of relative silence from the Bush Administration on the topic of torture, Rice declared before taking off that the U.S. "does not permit, tolerate or condone torture under any circumstances." In Europe she insisted there was no loophole for CIA officers operating abroad or for harsh treatment that didn't technically qualify as torture...
...while many opted for House shirts and athletic shorts, some donned spandex unitards and war paint. Allegations of questionable calls resulted mostly in extensions of game time, or “restarts,” and errant students were quickly corrected by Kollmer and Blickstead’s harsh rejoinders over the microphone. After all, what would an outlet for the Harvard competitive spirit be without due complaints of injustice and cheating, to the tune of Europe’s “The Final Countdown?...
...degrees of friendship” will rub into random persons’ proverbial faces that, in fact, they might not know you at all—ouch. That this new feature will serve to “out” those fraudulent friending-maniacs is unnecessarily harsh to that unsuspecting student you sat next to freshman year. There are less-cruel features already in place to indicate to curious classmates just who your true “friends” really...
...close. The CLC also delayed Felipe’s application to stay open until 4 a.m. for six months. The CLC made the right decision. Though Felipe’s violations were without a doubt regrettable, suspending the restaurant’s 2 a.m. license would be an extremely harsh penalty. Such a penalty could have had a chilling effect on other Square businesses, which had already started observing the CLC’s rules so dutifully that they were closing at 1:45 a.m. in order to ensure all customers had left in time. Though involved interest groups wanted...
...position, which the Canadian public in general is not [in favor of] and the Liberal party itself took a position against,” said Albo, who called Ignatieff “out of sync” with the Liberal party. Ignatieff has also faced harsh accusations of using disparaging ethnic slurs against Ukrainians in his published work...