Word: roughnesses
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...stomach twisted and turned with the old VW bus that served as a combi for several Indian villages in the mountains of Chiapas high above the town of San Cristobal de las Casas. The rough wool of the traditional poncho worn by the old Tzetzil-speaking man beside me scratched my arm as he helped his wife out of the bus with their now-empty egg crates. The driver leaned around to tell me that the next stop was Oventic, the Zapatista camp to which I had been invited to meet the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) Commission...
...bright murals depicting socialist utopias in Mexican villages. My hands shook as a man approached wearing a black balaclava that disguised his identity despite his brightly-colored traditional peasant garb. He led me into a barn that was only lit by the sun filtering between the cracks in the rough boards of the walls. My eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness to reveal two other men and a woman seated on a bench in the corner who were similarly dressed and disguised. As I sat in front of them I noticed an AK-47 leaning just to the left...
Harvard junior Jess Baker finished tenth in the championships. Baker overcame a rough start, one which saw her place out of the top 10 in four of the first five races, and finished strong, logging a seventh and 10th place finish, before completing the final race in fifth...
...bicycle and digs her community’s garden. She’ll be writing about cultural phenomena, including—but not limited to—the perks of marrying young. Not that she knows firsthand. Be sure to tune in to “The Rough Cut” on alternate Fridays...
None of Lincoln’s flaws in reporting affect his major points in any manner, nor would they be readily identifiable by members of his non-Ivy audience. They do remain quite distracting, however, to those with even a rough knowledge of the Ivy League...