Word: ruthlessness
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According to finance committee vice chair DavidA. Aronberg '93, other council members oftenperceive finance delegates as "man-eating,power-hungry gov-jocks who are pretty conservativeand pretty ruthless...
...sure, Saddam's methods are far more ruthless than Sharon's, but Israel's human and political dilemma is more acute than Iraq's. Because Israel is, in origin and essence, a Jewish state, most Arab residents are never going to feel that it is truly their country. That problem is vexing enough within Israel's pre-1967 borders, where the population is 82% Jewish. But on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 1.7 million Palestinians constitute an overwhelming majority that will feel forever oppressed, forever cheated, never reconciled, never redeemed...
...Simon & Schuster; 608 pages; $21.95), offers the reader a rare opportunity to watch adverbs mate. "Slowly, languorously" the naughty parts of speech tumble about during the sex scenes. But why aren't the scenes sexier? Never mind. The point of the story is to watch "darkly, exotically" beautiful but ruthless, yet sensitive and vulnerable female tycoon Lucky Santangelo -- she heads a billion-dollar shipping company but doesn't seem to go to the office much -- knife her way to ownership of Panther films, a big Hollywood studio. This she does without telling her actor husband ("Lennie was tall and lanky...
Next day came reports that Doe died while being interrogated on the whereabouts of millions of dollars of state funds that had disappeared during his 10 years in power. In an effort to downplay Johnson's reputation as a ruthless rebel, his official spokesman, Marcus Dahn, attributed Doe's death to loss of blood and denied that the President had been intentionally murdered. "As a matter of fact, Doe's death is a regret," Dahn said, "because we have maintained that we would not use the same brutal means by which the man ruled the country...
Coetzee is not so forgiving. In his sharply drawn Age of Iron, black parents who refuse to instill in their children a respect for the sanctity of life are as responsible as the ruthless police and indifferent whites for spawning youths who "start by being careless of their own lives and end by being careless of everyone else...