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...athletes at one of the nation's premier universities, Duke students posted flyers with photos of most of the lacrosse players imploring them to PLEASE COME FORWARD. But what really happened during the early-morning hours of March 14? An African-American student from nearby North Carolina Central University claimed that three men, believed to be Duke lacrosse-team players, choked and sodomized her in the bathroom of an off-campus house during a raucous team party at which she was hired to strip. She also said some men yelled slurs at her, a claim backed by a neighbor...
...allegations against his men. "We only killed men who were armed and firing at us." Though the building has been through several incarnations in past years-from political party branch under Saddam to an office space to what is said to have been a school-local leaders claim it is now a hussaniyah, a Shi'ite mosque,and should have had protected status...
...shake her hand, there was no sense of a holy place. Grabbed at a Baghdad hospital while visiting a brother being treated for gunshot wounds, he said his captors initially told him they were intelligence officers from the Ministry of Interior, a department Western officials privately claim is stacked with Iranian-backed militia forces...
...over 20% by allowing businesses to fire workers aged 26 and under after less than two years on the job without having to dole out hefty severance pay. Detractors argue that the law ignores French constitutional guarantees of equal rights and treatment for all citizens - a general principle some claim would be violated if labor protection other workers enjoy were denied to younger employees...
...their culture. Teen Mania Ministries, the Texas-based group that is organizing the tour, says that teens see 14,000 sexual scenes on TV each year, and another 10,000 rapes, assaults and murders. Some 90% of 8-to-16-year-olds have been exposed to porn online, they claim, most of it while doing homework. MTV in particular came under fire, for what organizers called its glamorization of sex, drugs, alcohol use and violence...