Word: harshness
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Texas Gov. George W. Bush's negotiations regarding the debates may have been a transparent attempt to avoid a well publicized debate with Vice President Al Gore '69. But Gore, in refusing to debate with the minor party candidates is refusing to engage the harsh criticism of his platform that the minor parties represent...
Lian's targets are as big as Mao portraits in a May Day parade. At age 12, she accompanies her mother to a harsh re-education camp. The time is the late '60s, when the born-again Communists of the Cultural Revolution strive to out-Orwell their Orwellian betters. Lian's mother, a university professor, and father, a physician, are just the sort of professionals to be singled...
...this ruling is a particularly harsh indictment; executives hoped the site's strict "usage guidelines" - the company claims participants are forced to prove they own a particular CD before listening to the songs, a bit of legally inspired window-dressing that seems both illogical and unlikely - would help protect the company from record companies' wrath. They were wrong. And now, as the music industry learns of Universal's hefty win, MP3 faces another round of jaw-dropping fines - while the site managed to cut deals with several record companies to stanch any legal action, only half of the music featured...
...Australia from the vanished days of the bush, and even from the convict era. They are wound tightly into our social history. One of these is the value set on "mateship"; another, related to it, is a much paraded dislike of ?litism. Mateship - essentially, male bonding - began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that mate was to be a scab, less than a man; such...
...budget surplus and a deficit in values." Yeah, those are really... um... fightin' words, Dubya. He goes on to defiantly vow to "be bold and decisive, to unite instead of divide" - but really the point here is the approachable, homey candidate that these ads present, as contrasted with the harsh tone of his father's campaigns. It's political restoration via Restoration Hardware...