Crossword-Solution: HEARTLESSLY 11 letters, 60 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

I see that you are heartlessly clever. For you know how to Love, but not Forever. You still return to me in flashes, so strong it clouds my Mind. The fire has turned to ashes, and yet, you’re not behind.

..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as its poor citizens clamored for a way out. I suggested that my experience in New Orleans working with the city's poorest people in the years before the storm had reflected the reality of third-world conditions in New Orleans, and that Katrina had not turned New Orleans into a third-world city but had only revealed it to the world as such. …

The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittancein terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industrythat exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly. And if that wasn’t enough to keep me out of stores, there was this aswell: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda — the advertising industry.