Word: mercilessness
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...wasn't the first time that Jelenic lost his cool during the series. On Friday, after a particularly merciless sequence by the Harvard student section, he banged on the glass with his stick to swipe at the fans who were pressed up against...
There is an epidemic spreading across Harvard's student population. It is vast, quick moving and merciless. And no, I'm not talking about last week's stomach flu. I am talking about yarn people. Yes, you know exactly what I'm referring to: knitting...
...Latest Thing, abetted by the shaky fantasy that there's such a thing as progress in art. Looking back on 1900 from the year 2000, we see a lot of images and objects whose authors were long ago banished from right-thinking, modernist art history--corpses strewn behind the merciless juggernaut of avant-garde "progress." Some of these are stirring, and quite a few are weirdly interesting. Many can be experienced only as camp, raised by the artists' obsessions to a level of superheated conviction. But many more are just God-awful, period. They are turkeys, duds, complete stiffs...
...what mattered most in New York wasn't the state of the campaign. It was the state of a man's soul--a man who has often been accused of lacking one. Giuliani has always enjoyed playing the crime-fighting superhero, but he has, famously, been a cold and merciless crusader--a bane to squeegee pests, jaywalkers, homeless people, welfare moms, police-shooting victims and city-council Democrats. But Giuliani's shell cracked open on Friday, when he announced his decision. His sharpness and arrogance fell away, and he was revealed as a man shaken to his core by cancer...
Sierra Leone, admitted a top U.N. official last week, "is a perfect model for everything that can go wrong in a peacekeeping operation." It began when the merciless rebel leader Foday Sankoh adopted a singularly ruthless strategy: if you terrorize enough civilians--raping girls, mutilating children, burning houses--the world will eventually give you just about anything to stop the atrocities. By July 1999 the beastly killing spree had spurred Washington and London into brokering a flawed peace-at-any-price, handing Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front amnesty, four seats in the government and control over the country...