Word: roughness
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When Franks' rough draft first arrived at the Pentagon nearly a year ago, the plan was to invade Iraq from Kuwait in the south, from Turkey in the north and from Jordan in the west. Rumsfeld couldn't shake the notion that it seemed too familiar. He felt that the U.S. would face a far weaker Iraqi army than the one it crushed 12 years ago--and has bombed incessantly for the past five years. "Despite being told not to do it, [Franks] basically sent up a revised Gulf War I plan. Rumsfeld couldn't believe it," says a senior...
...last gasp of a dying generation of anti-rock philistines? Hardly. As recently as this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, NFL planners arranged with the Stones beforehand to mute their microphones on “inappropriate” parts of their hits “Rough Justice” and “Start Me Up.” After inadvertently glimpsing part of a grown woman’s nipple two years ago, this country wasn’t taking any chances...
...central Berlin's hippest watering holes. Wuergeengel 122 Dresdener Strasse, wuergeengel.de A Kreuzberg institution, this old-fashioned, wood-paneled bar trumps the pretentious chic often found in new locations in the former East Berlin districts of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. It's elegant drinking in a rough part of town. Green Door 50 Winterfeldtstrasse, greendoor.de Ring the bell on the aforementioned door to get in, and sit at either the long wooden bar or in the dimly lit lounge. Green Door's aim is to weed out the beer guzzlers from the elegant drinkers...
Ryan Tindle, 21, carried that legacy to its modern-day extreme. In middle school, he started ditching class, trying to escape a tough home life by ingratiating himself with older kids who played rough. So it was little surprise when he traveled the well-worn path of the troublemaker, dropping out of high school and promptly beating up an older kid so severely that Ryan was sentenced to a year at Plainfield Juvenile Correctional Facility. Once inside, one of the few times he picked up a pencil, he used it to stab another inmate in the hand. He felt that...
...finished. As a result, the tournament rested on just yesterday’s round of play, and conditions were little better than the day before. “The course was pretty beat up today,” sophomore Sam Lissner said. “The greens were rough and very spotty. The greens were basically un-puttable for at least some of us.” One Crimson player who didn’t struggle was senior D.J. Hynes, who shot a 74 on his way to a top-10 finish. “Having done this for four...