Word: harshness
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...Brown took over as Britain's Prime Minister, Northern Rock was enjoying the summer. In a good first half of the year, it had lent a lucrative fifth of the U.K.'s new mortgages. Its stock traded around a healthy $17 mark. That glorious summer is over now. The harsh winter has put a very different shine on things...
...Vojislav Kostunica addressed the nation in Belgrade, declaring Kosvo's independence "null and void." "Kosovo's unilateral declaration of a false state is the final act of a policy that started with the NATO aggression against Serbia in 1999," the Prime Minister said in a televised speech spiked with harsh anti-Western sentiments. Most of Kostunica's anger was directed towards the United States in general and President George Bush in particular. "The President of the United States, who is responsible for this violation, will be noted in black letters in Serbian history books, along with his European followers," Kostunica...
...environment where academics takes center stage, thesis writing and response papers can sometimes become the be-all and end-all of Harvard life. Relationships that could flourish in more favorable climates have the tendency to wither and die in the harsh Cambridge cold unless couples share plenty of quality time in the stacks—working together. On problem sets...
...backdrop of religious conservatism has robbed too many women of the ability to meaningfully contemplate alternative lifestyles—without which individual consent is meaningless. Genuine consent requires that women not be implicitly swayed by social norms: They must be free to accept or reject a given practice without harsh social repercussions. But in Turkey, a country with a population that is 99 percent Muslim, the immense societal pressure to be a devout and practicing Muslim goes beyond mere “peer pressure” to deeply influence the range of lifestyles women can conceive for themselves; moreover, once...
...Those differences may help explain why Secretary Gates' letter, intended for official eyes only, was leaked to newspapers in Germany and widely characterized as another typical example of U.S. bullying. Describing the letter, which has not been made public, in harsh terms may have been an attempt by reluctant German officials to sabotage the appeal before it got off the ground, analysts say. With the Bush Administration as unpopular as ever, and public opinion set strongly against the idea (some 80% of Germans say they do not want to see their soldiers in combat) opposing even reasonable requests from Washington...