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The top national story at the Washington Post is President Clinton's hard-nosed self-defense at his first press conference in months.
With business savvy, personal charm, and Microsoft-style hard-nosed determination, he mastered the horrors of magazine economics, learned to tolerate the eccentricities of journalists, and set Slate on the path to success.
pieces paint Deng as a hard-nosed pragmatist and marvel at China's economic growth, but caution that the country is still beset by poverty, corruption, pollution, etc.
To see why spinning really should be eliminated, you have to look at the question from a hard-nosed efficiency angle.
And racial profiling has many defenders who say it is sensible, hard-nosed policing of the sort that has led to a dramatic drop in the nation's crime rate.