Word: roughness
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...Beck Field in Kingston, R.I. After recording a one-pitch save for freshman Eric Eadington Sunday against Cornell, senior Jake Bruton pitched three innings of one-run relief of Zailskas (1-0).Nick Greenwood (0-3) took the loss for the Rams (8-18, 3-3 Atlantic 10), getting roughed up for eight earned runs on seven hits in three-and-a-third innings. His teammates banged out 12 hits to Harvard’s nine, but couldn’t turn rallies into runs. Junior Matt Vance got the Crimson (10-11, 5-3 Ivy) off to a quick...
...wind picked up a little bit, so the start was a bit rough,” said junior and varsity stroke George Kitovitz. But by the 1200-meter mark, when they were a length up on Navy, he said, they could relax a bit and just “didn’t look back...
...Academy-Award-nominee. What would you do next? Star in an action film, obviously. With “Shooter,” a thriller about sniper Bob Lee Swagger—who is framed in an attempted assassination of the president—Mark Wahlberg returns to a rough-and-tumble role similar to the butt-kicking captain he played in “Planet of the Apes.” But according to the actor, moviegoers can expect to see a very different Wahlberg this time around. SNIPER SCHOOL “It’s an extremely difficult...
...also frequent doomsayers about teens-none more so than Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. In his new book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen (see my review from the magazine this week), Epstein argues that "many American teens are indeed in rough shape." He offers a long list of examples of what he calls "teen turmoil," everything from gang membership to drug use-all encouraged, he believes, by a pernicious teen culture that glorifies violence and substance abuse. "Attractive, trendy young people are frequently high or drunk in movies like Animal House...
...rockets from Sunni insurgents intent on turning it into the next Fallujah or Ramadi. Major Jeremy Siegrist, a cavalry commander working with a Stryker battalion, says more than 20 soldiers from his battalion of 800 men and women have died fighting in the city. "We've had a very rough couple of months," he says...