Word: harshness
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...rule were everywhere ascendant. Even traditionally conservative Germany was moving in a democratic direction, as the parliament became more representative, powerful, and willing to confront the Kaiser. The most “brutally repressive” political regime of that time—Czarist Russia—was admittedly harsh, yet in over one hundred years it killed less than four thousand people...
Following a T shirt around the world is a gimmicky narrative device, but it frees Rivoli from the usual debate over global trade. She goes wherever the T shirt goes, and there are surprises around every corner. In China, Rivoli shows why a clothing factory, despite its harsh conditions, represents a step toward personal freedom for the women who work there. In the kaleidoscopic used-clothing bazaars of Tanzania, she realizes that "it is only in this final stage of life that the t-shirt will meet a real market," where the price of a shirt changes by the hour...
Jonanthan Zittrain, the faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, wrote in an e-mail yesterday that he believes HBS’s reaction is “likely unduly harsh...
...demarcating which rights belong to the Internet-based companies and which are assigned to the consumer. This would both encourage otherwise blissfully ignorant customers to read the agreements onto which they are signing, as well as allay the temptation on the part of the software companies to use overly harsh rhetoric that, in this case, essentially robs individuals of any standard of privacy...
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