Word: relentlessness
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...Congress didn't look all that much better with its relentless grandstanding. Dutch Ruppersberger, a Democrat from Maryland, asked Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning, the opening witness and an ex--big league great, about a pitch he threw to Mickey Mantle. Representative Diane Watson, Democrat from California, dissed Arnold Schwarzenegger by flashing a 1987 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover featuring the Republican California Governor, an ex-steroid user, flexing under the headline HOT STUFF. Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen praised Cuban American Canseco for hailing from Miami. "It was a terrible day for baseball," says former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent...
...after day, over the course of the film’s relentless two hours and 35 minutes, life in the bunker becomes a hypnotic, if horrific, mix. One after another of the innermost members of Hitler’s circle defy and abandon him. He mentally and physically deteriorates further and further (until when asking a confidante how to shoot himself, he is told he should take cyanide as well, lest his violently tremoring hand not be up to the task...
Every aspiring filmmaker, journalist, or artist at Harvard can learn a lot from this incident: Mallozzi doesn’t get her inspiration from greedy dreams for multibillion-dollar box-office success or from pretentious notions of artistic purity. Both Mallozzi and her work are grounded in a relentless commitment to difficult truths and simple human dignity...
...murder of Lefkow's family has rattled courthouses around the nation. This is not supposed to happen in America. "It's news that makes your whole body hurt," says Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, a colleague of Lefkow's. "What an enormous, monstrous evil." The hunt for suspects is relentless because of the symbolic importance of punishing the killers. And the list of possible motives is long. But judges are also asking whether it is possible to better protect those whose work in the justice system makes them targets...
According to The Crimson, “students cited their experiences in introductory classes as particularly traumatic—saying that some male teaching fellows would drive their classes at relentless rate [sic].” Unless WISHR members suggest that women are somehow less able to handle the pace of these introductory courses than their male peers—a suggestion that, had it been made by Summers, would have caused scandal—there’s no reason to suggest that this “relentless rate” of teaching would affect women more adversely than...