Word: heartlessness
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...Laura P. Perry ’04, director of the Athena production, does not consider Shakespeare’s portrayal of the Jewish moneylender Shylock as a heartless businessman to be anti-Semitic. If so, she said, the play is equally anti-Christian, for its Christian characters appear equally cruel and far more deceitful...
...Because while al-Qaeda is waging a global 'jihad' against all things Western, the Chechens are fighting a war for national survival and independence. Seizing the theater was a brutal, heartless act of terrorism, no question. But al-Qaeda would have blown up the theater and everyone in it as soon as they were inside, and then celebrated the fact that they killed 800 Russians. These Chechens actually had a series of demands - they were totally unrealistic, of course, and there was no way Putin was ever going to agree to withdraw his forces from Chechnya. Nor did they have...
Shortly after Harvard bought the Arsenal, Watertown children and their parents were protesting Harvard’s heartless action. Now those parents are applauding the University’s presence. If Harvard hopes to capitalize on its newfound goodwill, however, it cannot stop in Watertown. It must expand its PILOT program in Cambridge and Allston as well. Cambridge currently receives only $1.6 million in PILOT payments, less than half of Watertown’s total—but Harvard occupies more than seven times as much space in Cambridge as in Watertown. This clear inequity is guaranteed to anger Cambridge...
...simply too much at stake to stay our current course." Says Democratic state representative Frederica Wilson, who is pressing Bush to open a grand jury investigation into the DCF's disasters: "If he doesn't stop and get a handle on this, he's going to look clueless and heartless come fall...
...Falling Leaves and Anhua Gao's To the Edge of the Sky, you'll find a basic formula: a feisty, exotically gorgeous woman suffers hell. Hell comes in the form of an oppressive regime (usually the Cultural Revolution) or through abuse inflicted by male power figures (heartless fathers or cruel husbands...