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...city housing project residents were having the roughest time, because their maintenance men were out. Eleven of the 44 projects were without heat, hot water or both as the city's temperatures dipped to 46° F. on the coldest nights. Sarcastically, one crippled pensioner snarled at two picketing plumbers: "The poor babies, I really feel sorry for them, especially when I'm shaving in cold water. We have to live on $300 a month, and these guys live on $24,000 a year." But not all the citizenry was so truculent. One elderly San Franciscan strolling down...
After Cornell, Princeton was the roughest opponent for the Crimson last year, destroying Harvard...
These are just a sampling of the epithets that are being hurled back and forth between Democrats in one of the roughest gubernatorial campaigns in the gamy history of Illinois politics. Incumbent Dan Walker, 53, is stopping at almost nothing to keep his job in next week's party primary. Illinois Secretary of State Michael Hewlett, 61, is matching him blow for low blow...
...somewhat too prodigious Joyce Carol Gates, 37, whose fiction has exploded with gunshots, stabbings and bombings, also sets off booby traps in the mind. Her seventh novel is a meditation on assassination and the violence that lodges in the American heart. This is her roughest, most repetitious read, yet it is difficult to suggest a briefer way to tell such a complex tale...
...that today's game will be the roughest yet for Brown and Harvard would be a gross overstatement. Both teams are very able on both sides of the ball...