Word: ruthlessness
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...Brolsma and for Ciarelli both, the Internet has been much like the Harvard tenure process: a ruthless and uncaring judge. It distributes great fortune in a way that to the eyes of mere mortals often looks plain capricious. I don’t know whether the tenure process is blind to identity—to lineage or gender or whatever—but the Internet most certainly is: on the net, somebody could be anyone, and it’s almost impossible to expose false claims of persona. And that means, among other things, that on the Internet, anyone?...
...those 14 years, Nepal has had 14 different governments, and the public's mounting contempt for politicians has helped fuel a Maoist insurgency that has cost the lives of 11,000 people since 1996. Having witnessed the Maoist movement's transformation from a ragtag rebel group to a ruthless force of 10,000-15,000 that controls some two-thirds of Nepal, the King said he had lost faith in the politicians' ability to stop the conflict. "Even when bloodshed, violence and devastation have pushed the country to the brink of destruction," he said, "those engaged in politics ... continue...
...doom-laden analysis is an extreme minority view - but the fact that it is being aired at all is remarkable. The Russian political system is authoritarian and secretive, but there's no sign that Putin's supporters are preparing to abandon him. In the past, Putin has shown himself ruthless in imposing his authority - as Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Yukos founder who tried to challenge Putin's power by funding rival political parties, discovered to his cost. Khodorkovsky has been in prison since October 2003, charged with offenses, which he denies, including tax evasion, embezzlement and theft. So when critical views...
...ahead of the pretenders. The physical package is awesome: 6 ft. 8 in., 240 lbs., with the speed of a guard and the strength of a power forward. His game is spectacular. James combines Jordan's ease at filling up the box score (and the stands) with a ruthless instinct to win, a trait that Hill, a gentleman, and Carter, a diffident performer, surely lack. And like Jordan, James knows he can't do it alone. In fact, he is a complete team player who loves to pass the ball and make his teammates better: Iverson and Bryant...
...motive familiar to readers of cynical crime fiction. In the original, it's an L.A. street gang, but one that metastasizes into a more generalized and troubling plague: the whole roiling sweep of urban pestilence that seized the U.S. in the '70s. It's the rampaging unknown, voiceless and ruthless--a nightmare that will end only if you can stay awake, and alive, till dawn...