Word: harshness
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...Winthrop Junior Common Room opposite a festive, impressionistic scene of Memorial Church at commencement, Thenjiwe N. Nkosi’s harsh outlines delineate fantastically Stalinist buildings, “moments in South African history.” Carefully adhering to a scheme of stark contrasts in grey, white and black, Nkosi ’04 creates wintry, nightmarish images of apocalypse...
...Last December, Ariel Sharon proclaimed Arafat "irrelevant." And nowhere is that more true than in the lives of the 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. They wake each day to the harsh reality of an Israeli occupation modified, but never ended, by the Oslo Accords. They endure the roadblocks that turn a 20-minute drive into a six-hour one, the checkpoints that stop women in labor from reaching hospitals, the curfews, the siege, the grinding, ever-deepening poverty, the air raids, the incursions, the demolitions of homes and fields and the incremental loss of their lands...
...been described as the "Iron Lady." Do you deserve that tag? I'm a pretty tough person. I believe, though, that if I had not been so tough in a harsh external environment and a harsh environment that I inherited politically, this administration would have been overwhelmed...
...Noted "They get a jump- suit. They don't get to pick the color." BRIGADIER GENERAL MIKE LEHNERT, Guantanamo security chief, responding to criticism of harsh U.S. treatment of al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners...
James Brosnahan, the chief lawyer for John Walker Lindh, the American accused of supporting the Taliban, had some harsh words for the U.S. government's conduct after his client's first appearance in court this week...