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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."
Zhu, too, is judged harshly, since most of his social reform pledges have remained unfulfilled, but the economy is on an upswing, and the "WTO breakthrough" is a boost to his hopes.
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.
Perhaps, I thought, the army yielded power harshly while wielding a no-iron velvet fist?