Word: harshness
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Siberia is much, much more, however, than the locus of past political evil. For every person sent unwillingly to exile in its arctic wastelands, many others came to hunt, trap, fish, log or mine. The harsh life drove many back, but others stayed, captivated by the sublime beauty of earth's greatest northern landscape. Vitali Menshikov, an oceanographer by training, came to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Far East 27 years ago. He has returned to Leningrad only once; instead, he has used his vacations to take expeditions--61 so far--on ski and foot through this breathtaking land...
...part or inept passes that were permissible under unstated standards by the Senate of a bygone era. Now suddenly the mood has changed. Though the Ethics Committee's recommendations are at least a month away, there is growing consensus that the penalty will be and must be harsh. The charge that tipped the balance was that of the 19th accuser, which came to light last week. The woman was only 17 years old and a former intern in his Washington office when the alleged incident occurred. Knowing her parents were away, Packwood showed up at her home on the pretext...
...secondary school students living in Lowell House this summer should be thankful that the most serious danger they have been exposed to--or at least informed of--is excessive trash in the Lowell House courtyard and an unnecessarily harsh response by the Summer School administration. Jol A. Silversmith...
...world less warped by racist double standards where human rights are concerned, the bogus arrest, kangaroo-court trial and harsh sentencing of General Olusegun Obasanjo would have produced front-page headlines and a torrent of protests. Instead the persecution of one of Africa's foremost proponents of democracy by Nigeria's brutal military regime has caused hardly a ripple outside a small circle of government leaders and human-rights activists. Is this because the press and general public, including African Americans, take assaults on political freedom perpetrated by black dictators against their own black citizens less seriously than other such...
...refused to disclose their names, what crimes they had supposedly committed or what their punishment would be. According to sources in the Nigerian exiles' community, Obasanjo has been sentenced to life in prison. Others have been condemned to death. Last week, even as Abacha claimed to be reviewing the harsh sentences, his secret police arrested still more dissidents, including Obasanjo's lawyer and the head of Nigeria's biggest pro-democracy group...