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...president of the college cited a need for new leadership and direction. The community and Allen’s players expressed both sadness and outrage. And when Gilmore was appointed new head coach at the end of December, he knew that he was sailing into rough, uncharted waters...
Diamond in the Rough Francesco Trapani...
Yale had a surprisingly rough time earlier this month at a convention fêting...
...same week, kidnappers freed three Indian truck drivers, three Kenyans and an Egyptian but killed three Turks.) The executions produced concerns of a different kind for Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who was accused of not doing enough to free the hostages. The deaths capped a rough fortnight in which the Maoists tried to cripple Kathmandu by forcing 12 corporations to close and threatening trucks supplying the city. (They relented a week later in the face of popular defiance.) A few weeks later, supporters of one of Deuba's political rivals staged a one-day general strike...
...thieves who snatched The Scream and one other Munch canvas from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, subjected them to rough handling from the start. On Aug. 22, at 11:10 a.m., about an hour after the museum opened, two men wearing hooded sweatshirts, gloves and ski masks burst through a side entrance. One of them waved a pistol, terrifying visitors, then pointed it at the head of an unarmed female guard and barked in Norwegian, "Lie down!" Meanwhile an accomplice dashed through the ground-floor galleries until he came upon Munch's Madonna from 1893-94. The apotheosis...