Word: harshness
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...famous book One L about Harvard Law School (HLS) Scott Turow writes about the school's reputation as being "large, harsh, and stifling"-his "enemy," as he called it. But this HLS of legend may soon change, thanks to a massive change in law school education requiring funds of nearly $400 million. This new "Strategic Plan," which outlines the reforms, is designed to make the Harvard Law School education more appealing, enjoyable, and enriching to its students...
...while there may not be a "crisis" which is prompting the reforms, some criticize the first year experience at the law school as harsh and alienating...
...building of a Japanese empire in Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan and the South Pacific, with its grandiose government buildings, its high-minded schemes to improve the natives and its harsh authoritarianism was a form of mimicry, too. To be civilized you had to have an empire. The British had one and the Dutch and the French, so why not the Japanese? That Americans and Europeans began to resent Japanese empire-building and tried to find ways to curb Japanese ambitions was seen by many Japanese, not entirely without reason, as a form of racial discrimination. Japan wanted more than anything...
...understand why. If I do sound harsh, it's because I went to the games in Hanover on Saturday as well. The place was jumping. The Big Green faithful knew the gravity of the moment and came to do what they could. And they heckled, churning out such winners as "Trey Hendricks! What's your real name?" and "That's not the real Javy Lopez! I know Javy Lopez!" When someone with a less colorful name came up, they would result to the generic, "Get involved...
Anything is possible in the world of hypotheticals, and it is in that realm that the latest Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire plan resides. Transpose it into the harsh light of contemporary reality, and the chances are minimal of it being anything but stillborn. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres arrived in the U.S. Monday for talks with the Bush administration on the plan put forward by Egypt and Jordan to have Israelis and Palestinians resume political dialog after both sides take steps to reduce the current level of violence...