The Council of Christian Churches in France has written to Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, to express concern at the law's harshness.

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The harshness of Serebruany's comments shows how controversial prasugrel has become.

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In recent years, a hint of off-putting harshness has crept into Winslet's work (in "Revolutionary Road" and "Mildred Pierce, " she did too much gloomy suffering for our sins), but in "Titanic" she plays Rose as a spiky princess, trapped by privilege, who allows herself to melt like a girl and, in doing so, melts her own prison and finds herself as a woman.

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Toyota's noise-vibration-harshness gurus nonetheless managed to quell most of the unpleasant resonances and noise in the cabin.

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Caravaggio's art responded to the city's brutal beauty with a new harshness.

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But that harshness makes Antarctica the perfect outdoor laboratory for testing theories about the relationship between the earth's climate and the creatures that live in the soil.

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