Word: harshness
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...While his background includes both solid security credentials and an association with Russia?s reformist politicians, it?s clear that the former played the major role in bringing Putin to power - and therein lies a harsh message for the West. Yeltsin had established a working relationship with Washington based on copious infusions of Western cash to shore up his deeply unpopular regime in exchange for Russian compliance with the U.S. agenda on the international stage and lip-service to Western ideas on how the Russian economy should be reformed. But the systematic international humiliation that Yeltsin?s approach brought...
...missiles that leveled his Afghan hideaway have driven him into a sleepless life of hide-and-seek. Though his protectors, the Taliban government in Afghanistan, still refuse to hand him over, he is constrained not to tick them off. The U.S. warned the Taliban again last week to expect harsh reprisals if bin Laden acts. They responded that he cannot even use fax or phone to direct his enterprises, but U.S. officials don't believe...
...contemporaries advise us, "great in body...but not ungainly." He had a harsh voice, but his speech was always appropriate. His chroniclers lauded his ability to "appraise the true significance of events" and make good "the fickle promises of fortune." They also remarked that he was "too relentless to care though all might hate him." William the Conqueror was a man--or, more important, a monarch...
...government will push corruption charges against him. He underestimated the determination with which the scandal-ridden Kremlin would fight to secure its future. Much like the war in Chechnya, which is designed to be a deterrent to other republics that are considering making a bid for independence, the harsh war on Fatherland has driven home the message that you need very strong nerves to challenge the Kremlin...
...mean to sound overly cynical or harsh and I certainly do not mean to imply that, by their involvement with this sordid affair, the Senate president and the House Speaker are bad or irresponsible people. They simply gave in to a strong temptation, the temptation to help themselves at the expense of others...