Word: roughnesses
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...definitely needed a win coming off a rough weekend,” said junior center Kalen Ingram. “There’s still a lot of work to be done though. I don’t think we played to the top of our ability...
...weren't the five-star accommodations with internal hydroelectric power plants and brick-lined walls, areas to drive armored tanks and children's tricycles, and tunnels like capillaries that have captured the world's imagination. Such commodious quarters might exist higher in the White Mountains, but these were simply rough bunkers embedded deep into the mountain. They were remarkable nonetheless...
...point victory was sweet revenge. for the Crimson (4-3). In last year’s contest, the Harvard team fell 70-67 in a game where they trailed by just one point late in the second half. The three-point loss continued the Crimson’s rough start to last season, which they would just as soon forget. Harvard began the year 1-10 before pulling together after the winter break...
...then gathering them into bunches that you grasped loosely and tapped folded-edge down, so that they slid together cleanly in thick blocks and the newsprint rubbed its way into every swirl and crevice in the pads of your fingers and stayed there until you scoured it out with rough soap. And then walking home filthy as the sun came up, knowing you’d helped put together something good, something finite and ephemeral and tangible, something hundreds of people you’d never see would hold that very morning in their hands...
...Jalalabad's citizens are starting to miss the comparative stability under their former rulers, as they are once again thrust into the maelstrom of feuding warlords. The Taliban's strict, often brutal, interpretations of Islamic law banned everything from music to squeaky shoes, but at least there were laws. (Rough justice is no excuse, of course, for the Taliban's intellectual and cultural oppression.) But now, as the three warlords who control Jalalabad remain inside their walled compounds, residents on the dusty streets outside fear their city will slip into medieval disorder. Relief grain sent by the World Food Program...