Word: ruthless
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy—renegade Gallic right-winger and scourge of les pouvoirs-qui-sont—campaigned on an image as the ruthless reformer of a defunct bureaucracy and a law and order fanatic. As Minister of the Interior, he rejected the liberal elite’s Chamberlain-complaisance amid the swells of exurban civil unrest, denouncing the young, disaffected, and largely Arab agitators as “racaille” (rabble), an inflammatory move many considered imprudent...
...thought of not being able to purchase film for my Polaroid camera in 2009 frightens me, and makes me wonder if anything is sacred. Must I now be nostalgic of not only sandlot baseball games, but also “old” technologies made irrelevant by the ruthless advance of digital innovation? Maybe Polaroid figures you can’t “shake it like a Polaroid picture” because of your carpal-tunnel from “Guitar Hero.” The magic is gone—at least for our generation.We shouldn?...
...regimes, one that keeps its people in miserable penury. At a time when states such as Burma are rightly condemned in the West for their abuses of human rights, it has always baffled me why there is so little protest on campuses and among Hollywood activists of Pyongyang's ruthless suppression of dissent...
...leads them elsewhere, they are only reflecting a visceral understanding that the presidency involves tests unlike all others. They are, perhaps, seeking the ineffable quality the writer Katherine Anne Porter had in mind when she defined experience as "the truth that finally overtakes you." An ideal President is both ruthless and compassionate, visionary and pragmatic, cunning and honest, patient and bold, combining the eloquence of a psalmist with the timing of a jungle cat. Not exactly the sort of data you can find...
...institutions. As we witness the end of his tenure, we feel that Fidel Castro has left a lasting impact—both positive and negative—on the country he has ruled for so long. Shunned by much of the international community as the tainted legacy of a ruthless dictator, these political changes have in fact brought hope to many that one day, Cuba might become a functioning democratic society. In order to facilitate this hopeful end, the United States should relax its senseless, harmful restrictions on Cuba and come to play an integral part in shaping the future...