Word: harshness
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...many cases never to resurface. The most comprehensive report, a review of 20 years of educational research, was released last year by the Rand Corporation, the nonprofit research group in Santa Monica, Calif. Cheerfully titled Focus on the Wonder Years: Challenges Facing the American Middle School, it offered a harsh critique of the middle school record. Among its findings...
...move exposed a rare flash of dissent from University’s seven-member governing body, which appeared to stand by Summers this spring amid harsh criticism from professors...
Many professors who criticized Summers at three contentious Faculty meetings this spring also reserved harsh words for the Corporation, which they described as out-of-touch with the campus...
...something to object to, liberal activists being forced by the sheer weight of Roberts' rectitude to say they would withhold judgment. The New York Times profile poured across the front page to two more full pages inside without uncovering one single person who knew Roberts and had a harsh word...
...sticky Saturday, and the sun was fast disappearing. The men, tan from the harsh Gulf sun, drank Budweisers. It was an evening like any other, only I was there...