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...been rough. To last out here a month is no joke," Brown said in his final speech on the show. "The last few days have been really rough on me and it'll be good to have a meal, a shower, a shave...
Even simpler tools can make certain problems go away faster and shrink expense reports. In February, Cendant Corp. needed to design a facade for a hotel in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, that was becoming a Day's Inn. Architects and designers drew up rough drafts in the Parsippany, N.J., headquarters of Cendant's hotel division--which operates 6,440 hotels in 24 countries. Then the New Jersey team e-mailed the designs to Egypt and arranged a conference call with the franchise designers and operators in Sharm El Sheikh. "Before this, we would have spent...
...American political tradition does not believe in such abstractions. The American idea is that the public interest does not arise from the ether and alight upon the shoulder of some wise Senator pulling his chin. It is defined by the rough clash of voices and forces and, yes, interests. Contrary to McCain, these clashing interests are good. The American idea has never been to suppress them but to pit them against each other and allow them to proliferate. The more they proliferate, the more they check and balance each other. Coal fights natural gas. Napster fights the record industry. Nader...
...attempt to extradite Milosevic will be a rough political sell in Serbia. A recent poll found that while most Serbs were happy to see Milosevic tried for domestic crimes, extradition was largely unacceptable. Many Serbs don't want Milosevic to face war-crimes charges because that would force them to begin to recognize that it was not Milosevic who raped and murdered his way through the last decade of the 2nd millennium. It was not Milosevic who liquidated whole towns of men and teenage boys. That work was done by unknown numbers of Serbian soldiers and paramilitaries who still walk...
...case of the civil rights movement, television provided the first rough draft of history. Searing images of demonstrators being beaten, attacked by police dogs and knocked down by fire hoses aroused the conscience of the nation and helped assure the movement's success. But for all its power and persuasiveness, broadcast news inevitably oversimplified the story, literally reducing it, in the days before color TV, to a black-and-white morality play. It could not explain how ordinary black men and women and their white allies mustered the extraordinary courage with which they confronted the brutality of segregation. Nor could...