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...thing the play looked at.”“I just thought everyone else had come to that conclusion by now,” he says, repeating his surprise that people find his work controversial. “But I was wrong.” A ROUGH PERIODAside from his brief stint as the campus antichrist, Durang’s Harvard days were typical for a sensitive campus undergraduate: he was stressed-out and depressed.“I kind of went through a bit of a depression at Harvard,” he recalls...
...ROUGH GUIDES ITOORS This series includes a literary stroll through London, a musical jaunt in Prague and a walk through Impressionist-era Paris. Listen on the plane or as you tour the cities...
...With Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution (Ecco; 475 pages), the indispensable Simon Schama (Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution) has taken a much trickier path. By choosing to tell the story of the thousands of escaped slaves who fought beside the British in the hope of securing their freedom, he effectively turns the American Revolution upside down. In Schama's book, it's the Crown that holds out the promise of liberty, the patriots who would take it away. As war approached, the British promised emancipation to any runaways who would join forces with...
DRIVING A NEW COURSE Golfer Tiger Woods, in New Zealand last week for his caddie's wedding, won a charity stock-car race, despite crashing into the wall on the third lap. Gives new meaning to being in the rough...
...headwind on the river pushed the team off track. As the race progressed, the Black and White could not fully recover, losing to the Tigers by three seconds with a time of 7:25.5.“It was a messy start right from the get-go, and the rough start brought an overall disconnected race,” lightweight co-captain Ashley Antony said. “[As a result], we didn’t race as we can and should have.”It was not a total disappointment for the lightweight squad, as the team only...