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...repatriated refugees will, of course, suffer the most dire consequences of this heartless policy. If the administration can trust the testimony of one self-interested Kuwaiti teenager, then shouldn't they believe the words of dozens of "double-backers" and the desperate actions of thousands of other Haitian refugees...
...talk is cheap. Desperate times call for desperate solutions. Harvard needs to drastically rethink its fiscal policies, to reconceptualize solvency in a heartless age of global capitalism. With that in mind, we offer eight ideas for Harvard to raise money...
...noble values--egalitarianism and security, to name two--and sometimes even achieved them. What is so tragic about the vanquishing of the old-line Soviet Communists is that those values are gone, chucked into the void with gulags and five-year plans, replaced by the potential-laden, but equally heartless, god of the Free Market. The leaders of the New Russia and its 14 Dwarves are showing an appalling willingness to adopt Western capitalism hook, line and sinker without much consideration of what it means...
...honest: Fireovid, then 33, a righthander who gets by more on guile than God-given talent, posts the second best earned- run average in the American Association while gamely stifling his disappointment as many of his younger teammates are called up by the Montreal Expos. The Expos are not heartless: they want Fireovid to trade his glove for a clipboard as a minor-league pitching coach. But Fireovid cannot let go of his dream. As he admits in August, "Earlier in the season . . . I was positive I'd be retiring from baseball. Now I'm not so sure...
...example, she describes an episode in which Nancy, after an angry encounter with her stepson Michael, then 16, callously told him he had been born out of wedlock to an army sergeant who had gone overseas and never returned. Writes Kelley: "Michael said he was rocked by the heartless way he received the news . . . 'I guess I expected Nancy to be more sympathetic,' he said years later...