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...every student can count on such decisive action. Meredith's son Adam, 14 (both mother's and son's names have been changed), attends a private boarding school in the English countryside. Classmates repeatedly pick on Adam for being small for his age and a vegetarian; they deliberately bump into him and vandalize his property. Meredith says Adam's school simply pretends there's no problem. "I've made dozens of phone calls but no one ever gets back to me," she says. "It's as if he doesn't exist." School officials did not respond to requests for comment...
...they were unaware that a powerful earthquake off the coast of Indonesia had triggered a tsunami that would kill more than 155,000. The deadly wave felt like little more than a bump to the Chens because tsunamis don’t develop into tall waves until they approach the shore...
...were really hoping to turn a corner after the Connecticut game and head in the right direction,” tri-captain Julie Chu said. “I still think that we are heading in the right direction. We’ve just hit a bump in road. It’s especially disappointing when you know you could have had the better of them...
...percent bump for fiscal year 2006 will mark the fourth straight year of slim payout increases that have generally fallen short of the higher-education inflation rate. Payout increases at the beginning of the decade were far higher, topping out at a 37-percent hike...
...unexpected rise in benefits costs necessitated the extra bump, Berman said...