Word: harshness
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...campus of the University of Pennsylvania. I journeyed down to West Philadelphia for a barbeque thrown by a local club-rowing program. I was expecting a relaxed evening of hamburgers, hotdogs and small talk about crew in all of its obsessive glory. What I instead got was a rather harsh lesson about the amount of bitterness, anger and envy that word “Harvard” can conjure up, and a jolting reminder that people, even very smart well educated people, are often totally irrational...
...Experts caution that the Clef du Vin will not magically transform a harsh vin de table into a grand vintage. (You can ruin a good wine by leaving the instrument in the drink too long.) What it can do is help determine which vintages are worth waiting for, and for how long. Wine goes through stages of oxidization, from fermentation and bottling to total oxidization, when it becomes too old to consume. In between, it reaches periods of equilibrium when it is perfect for uncorking. The Clef du Vin helps predict when those periods will fall-and with 95% accuracy...
...will be a commander in chief who will never mislead us into war,” Kerry said, going on to criticize the rest of the Bush administration in equally harsh terms, though just short of explicitly. “I will have a vice president who will not conduct secret meetings with polluters to rewrite our environmental laws. I will have a secretary of defense who will listen to the best advice of our military leaders. And I will appoint an attorney general who actually upholds the Constitution of the United States...
...worms who seem like they’d be more comfortable eating my food from within my intestines than providing it for me at the end of a line. (In fairness I guess I’d make the same choice.) They squirm away from the harsh light, diving back into the soil. I pick out a dozen and drop them into the bucket, wondering if they need water or soil or something but concluding they’ll last the two-minute ride down to the lake...
...throat and stole all my fish. I was fishing 14 nautical mi. from their island." Sea rights is a hot issue in the Torres Strait following landmark native-title decisions in the 1990s; a whiff of secession talk intermittently sweeps through Islander communities, which have been known to dispense harsh treatment to outsiders...