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...thought today was the deadline for the rough draft...
...documentaries and at least six biographies have modified but not dispelled the mystique that trailed like a haze of cigarette smoke across her life. It began with the much told tale of her birth in the street in a rough- and-tumble section of Paris. A plaque at No. 72 Rue de Belleville, unveiled in 1966 by Maurice Chevalier, marks the spot, but a new biography reveals she was born in a hospital. All true, however, are the impoverished and cruel childhood, the early time spent as a prostitute and the death before age 2 of her only child...
...Beys insists that he wants to stress hispositive gains as chair. "It was a rough term, butin the meantime I got a lot done," he said...
Journalists romanticize the stakeout. It's supposed to be gritty, rough and tough. Real journalism, kicking ass, taking names. Bob Woodward does stakeouts. And his always worked out as planned...
...True friendship is never serene." Thus wrote Marie de Rabutin-Chantal--whoever she is--in 1671. Friendship is the rough average between a courtroom trial and a self-affirmation tape, the middle ground between the disinterested search of truth and maternal caring. that middle ground is full of heated arguments that get really personal. Friendship is that place where it is painful to tell the truth and hear the truth, but where you also know that the truth is the best thing for everybody involved. Friends point out each other's hypocrisies and get past the resentment that comes...