Word: roughnesses
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...that it’s unclear whether diversity benefits a university, and that Jewish students—unlike their black and female peers—perform better than their test scores indicate. But the Klitgaard Report, as it was popularly called, was prematurely released when The Crimson leaked a rough draft of the report, which was to be finished more than a year later.While Bok criticized The Crimson for releasing excerpts from the unfinished draft, leaders of minority groups criticized Bok for commissioning a report undermining affirmative action. Bok addressed the controversy in an open letter that spring, defending...
...against Harvard, the Tigers came back in remarkable fashion, with Noah Savage nailing a baseline jumper with under a second left to give Princeton a 60-59 win.“Back-to-back losses, losing in the last second like we did, it was kind of a rough way to go into the Penn game, which is what everyone was looking forward to,” said junior shooting guard Jim Goffredo. “It took the wind out of us, [and] it was tough for us to bounce back.” Harvard lost...
...After convincing my family that I really wanted to be a chef, I got to Paris and I hated it for the first two months. I was lonely; I had never been away from my family. It was rough, and school was rough. And the chefs were so hard on us. For an American girl who's used teachers that are nice to you, they were evil. They threw stuff at us - sauces, knives. It is a different mentality. They were treating us the way they were treated coming up, and they were letting us have it. Nobody can prepare...
...after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (G.D.R.). Yet some east Germans still cling to memories of the 40 years they lived under communist rule - memories that have grown more affectionate with time. Speciality shops and some websites offer east German board games, 15-packs of the infamously rough Cabinet cigarettes, Be Ready condoms, even cans of Trabi Duft - fumes from the iconic Trabant car - and the very brand of hair gel preferred by former east German leader Erich Honecker. Young Berliners still gather at "authentic" G.D.R. parties, where guests don the uniforms of state organizations, swill Little...
...does from Schlosser's book. Here the immigrants are illegals from Mexico, but their path, their Calvary, is the same. They survive a perilous trip into the U.S. and are assigned a literally vomitous job handling cattle innards at the "Uni-globe" meat plant. The women endure rough handling by their sexually avaricious overlord; some of the men get mangled in the machinery, only to be told they're not eligible for insurance...