This may satisfy harsh punishment enthusiasts' notion of justice but all it does is waste billions of dollars, while destroying prisoners' lives and heaping pain and suffering on their families.
Harsh as the notion sounds, you've funded your retirement.
The truth behind the 1936 Games casts a harsh light on the notion that the Olympics can have a salutary effect on repressive regimes.
As Jonathan Chait says in the linked piece above, the real defining characteristic of social Darwinism is the notion that harsh inequality is both necessary and right.
Indeed, a visit to the site -- www.intrepidny.com -- reveals advice that is unvarnished and daunting, in service to the notion that harsh truths are best taken neat and fast, with no chaser.
It's as if the characters in Moehringer's and Flynn's books had picked up and headed toward the setting sun, only to find themselves squinting into the desolation of a border town, the desert light throwing into harsh relief the feckless notion that they ever could have started over.
"It's astonishing how uncompromising it is in introducing kids to an alternative mythology of death," Mr. Hytner said, "how it finds a harsh consolation in the notion that death is death and that the worst possible thing, the most desperate thing, is that there is some kind of afterlife.
And of course, the "Islamiyeen" have little loyalties to the Syrians in the "liberated" areas and justify their extremist views and harsh dealings on archaic notions of religion and religious statehood.
The council has tended, for the most part, to reflect his sensibilities, its members influenced by the same harsh conditions, survivor's instinct and notion of racially motivated neglect that shaped the mayor's political philosophy.
But any such romantic notions are belied by harsh reality, and the leading metaphor in the literature of coevolution is not the Elysian Fields, but the arms race.
