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JAILED. ROBERT CHAMBERS, 38, a.k.a. the Preppie Killer, whose 1986 killing of teenager Jennifer Levin in Manhattan's Central Park--accidentally, he contended, during "rough sex"--triggered national outrage; for possession of heroin; two years after serving the full 15 years in prison for Levin's murder; in New York City...
...Well, it's pretty complicated. These were, in many cases, very aggressive, expanionistic societies. When you look at the Triple Alliance, or the Aztecs, as they're commonly called, these are rough customers. And in the Spanish, they met other rough customers...
Until 20 years ago, Vancouver's Main Street - an artery running from Chinatown toward South Vancouver - marked the boundary between the city's smarter West Side and the rough-and-ready section known as East Van. How times have changed. Successive waves of artists, media types and other loft dwellers kicked off a gradual process of gentrification; the day young families started infiltrating its neighborhoods, East Van's journey to respectability was complete. One knock-on effect of this has been the tidying up of Main Street itself. Cafés and galleries have mushroomed there; so have boutiques - particularly...
Sachs’ primary interest lay in Degas’ sketches, and indeed many of the works on display in the Sackler were rough drawings that later developed into paintings...
...Sadly, it is not hard to predict the outcome. The tendency to homogeneity is as irresistible as gravity. We see it in the world's languages: from a rough total of 6,000 spoken today, linguists fear half will disappear within the next generation; 90% will be gone by the end of this century. And with each tongue that is silenced, every dance that is forgotten, every song and headdress design that slips from tribal memory, we sense that part of humanity's common heritage is lost...