Word: roughnesses
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...incorruptibility. It takes you to dangerous depths of doesn’t-she-look-a-little-young curiosity. It makes you wonder if, as a youth, Scarlett’s parents took a big strip of sandpaper and ground that voice from a perfect diamond down into a rough-cut masterpiece. It’s seduced the on-screen likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Firth, and the seemingly unseduceable Bill Murray. She uses it again in her latest film, “Match Point,” to charm the fidelity off of a married Irish tennis star. Sure...
...Chinatown bus business in New York City is a rough-and-tumble one, featuring supercheap fares along the Eastern seaboard, erratic schedules and cutthroat competition. But it got out of hand one night in May 2003. In the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge, a Dragon Coach bus company driver named De Jian Chen, reportedly caught in the middle of a murky feud with another outfit, was shot dead...
...that struggle must be conducted, it's acceptable to hold captured suspects indefinitely without trial, hand them over for questioning to nations known to torture prisoners, define American citizens as enemy combatants who can be detained without charges, resist efforts by Congress to put limits on the rough interrogation of detainees and allow the CIA to establish secret prisons abroad. Any and all of those things may be necessary, but this is shaping up as the year when we take a long, hard look...
...swung the game to its favor. As the Bearcats desperately tried to regain possession and the lead by committing fouls, the Crimson appeared unaffected by the pressure in nailing five of seven free throw shots to close out the game. McCaffery, banged up by the Bearcat’s rough fouls, was 4 of 4 from the line down the stretch—and 6 of 7 for the game—in notching twelve points and seven rebounds. Robinson’s free throw with seven seconds left would be the last point of the game...
...attempt a shot in the opening frame. “Each time we go through this cycle [with games over Christmas break],” Sullivan said. “We go home, we meet at a site, we practice for two days, and there’s always rough sledding in the first half of the game.” The Crimson looked calmer and more poised in the second half, as Stehle asserted himself on the offensive glass and Harvard attacked the basket with much more consistency. Freshman Evan Harris put up 10 hard-fought points against...