Word: harshness
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...seen by many as a Turkish version of Silvio Berlusconi, an entrepreneur whose appeal lies in his business success and can-do attitude. But anti-Western sentiment is growing in Turkey in the aftermath of the Iraq war, partly as a result of the U.S. government's harsh criticism of the country for failing to admit U.S troops. Paradoxically, Uzan's troubles with Motorola are probably helping him politically. The Motorola case "is a point of pride among his supporters," argues Arus Yumul, a sociologist at Istanbul's Bilgi University. "The fact that it was America he conned earned...
...stonewalling or mentally disturbed. A mental health facility opened in March and now houses about 20 captives judged to be suicide risks, while some 125 other prisoners live in a medium-security compound, in dorm-like buildings of 10 men each. American officials don't worry much about harsh conditions for terror suspects. They point out that the global threat posed by al-Qaeda is novel and particularly dangerous. They're confident lengthy detention without the chance to pass messages through lawyers can break up terror cells and prompt confessions. "We're getting a great deal of useful information," says...
...international forces get here, I think it's time to go. There are thousands of people in this country that are upset, that do not understand this at all. I'm not sure Africa understands this. The African union doesn't understand this. Because these calls, these harsh calls, were not coming from the African continent. So leaving a bloody civil war, leaving a void is not the thing to do. President Obasanjo (of Nigeria) did not take this action (of offering Taylor asylum) alone. This was a decision taken across the continent, and I have received invitations from other...
...Arab terrorists” hating America so much they would kill themselves to oppose it. Most people I have met make the clear distinction between Bush and American foreign policy, which they oppose, and the American people, whom they like. Some have even made that distinction regarding Israel, reserving harsh words for Ariel Sharon, but having only good things to say about actual Israeli citizens...
...Franklin became an apprentice at the printshop of his older brother James, who tended to be quite tough as a master. "I fancy his harsh and tyrannical treatment of me," Franklin later speculated, had the effect of "impressing me with that aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to me through my whole life." That was a bit unfair to poor James, whose newspaper in Boston was the first feisty and independent publication in the colonies and who taught young Benjamin how to be cheeky about establishment authority...