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Amid all the hand-wringing (especially on the sports pages) about whether Latrell Sprewell has been dealt with too harshly comes the voice of reason in the form of a letter to the NYT , which points out that if Sprewell had a real job, he'd be looking at permanent unemployment and criminal prosecution.
He coughed harshly and spat copiously on the ground.
Despotic noblemen repressed the peasants so harshly that an army led by György Dózsa rose in rebellion in 1514, but the insurrection failed; Dózsa was roasted alive and the serfs’ condition continued to decline.
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
In an editorial titled "Auf Wiedersehen, Bonn," the Times of London said many people still worry about what Germany might again become "once ruled from the harshly beautiful, eastward-looking, centre of Prussian and Nazi military expansion."