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...brush but with twigs of ailanthus wood -- ailanthus being the common weed tree that grows in every sidewalk crack in Lower Manhattan but is known to the Chinese as the tree of heaven. Stuck in a long holder and dipped in ink, these flexible little sticks delivered a blobby, rough line, far from the look of classical brush drawing but with some of its improvised character...
Princeton was helped by the referee, who called eight fouls against the Crimson but only one against the Tigers in the first 15 minutes, despite the rough play on both sides...
...rough week for Italian saints. To start with, scientists in Milan announced that a mixture of iron chloride and calcium carbonate, which looks like dried blood, can duplicate a phenomenon that has long been regarded as the miracle of ST. JANUARIUS. A vial believed to contain blood from the 4th century priest is kept in Naples, where several times a year the contents spontaneously liquefy and then return to a powdery state. The researchers, who demonstrated the same phenomenon with the chemical compound, speculate that a chemist may have concocted a hoax. The next day, in Padua, four masked thieves...
Cambridge residents have got it rough. The object of many a national joke, they've had to put up for decades with reputations for crunchy liberalness and weird New Age experimentation...
...said the nominee's "own intelligence, his many years of experience in intelligence work and what I trust he has learned in the course of two rough, tough confirmation processes qualifies him extremely well...