Word: harshness
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...lowering sky turns dark, Kalluk, the Inuit hunter, suspects that dreams of a new world in the north are overdone. "Whatever else happens," he says, "the sun will still disappear for a good part of the year." The unanswered question is whether that will be enough to preserve the harsh beauty that he and others in the Arctic have long known and cherished...
...racial makeup of the current Springbok squad sparked weeks of anguish among politicians back home, concerned about the image it projects to the world, but divided over how to address the problem. Despite the government's upbeat post-apartheid "rainbow nation" theme, official statistics underscore the persistence of harsh inequalities: last year more than 60% of black South Africans scraped by on less than $100 a month, up from 50% in 1996. By contrast, only 4% of whites earn that little. "At the very top there is a lot of integration," says Frans Cronjé, head of development...
...Second, I earned that $12 million. We were partners. I was the only one who supported her during the hard times. I bit people she felt she could not bite herself. I appeared in those commercials alongside her--softening what, to be frank, could otherwise have been a very harsh public image. Actually, I earned more than the $12 mil, but my lawyers say I can't talk about that until our case is settled...
...Despite the harsh condemnation from global leaders, no concrete action has so far been taken by the international community. A bipartisan team of U.S. lawmakers has written to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, urging her to call an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on Burma. Without firm action from bodies like the U.N. or economic patrons like China, the members of Congress fear that Burma's generals may very well keep up their repressive ways, as they did back in '88. In the meantime, Burma's underground activists are asking for continued resistance from the nation's embattled populace...
...tradition of Shakespearean biographers, Greer's theories come thick, fast and unencumbered by hard proof. Greer postulates that Anne and William designed her pregnancy to jump-start the complicated marriage negotiations between their families. She envisions an independent Anne who, after William's departure, brought her three children through harsh winters, plagues and food shortages, and prospered as a maltmaker and moneylender. Anne, not William, purchased and restored New Place, the grand home to which he would eventually retire. Although the Shakespeares lived apart most of their married lives, Greer rejects the notion of estrangement. Sixteenth century laws criminalized "living...