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Within an hour, a blue sedan pulled up to the curb. The driver, a heavyset man, maybe 60, motioned her inside. At a nearby motel, Christine was too nervous to discuss money; he just dropped a couple of bills on the bedside stand. "He said something like, 'That should do it,' " she remembers. Then he took off his pants. "I couldn't do it. I wanted to run. I just started crying," she says. "It was like the man was really, really embarrassed. He was older than my father even, and I couldn't stand it. He asked...
Every team fears them. Coaches loathe them. Every team worries about its star player waking up with a season-ending one. Every player worries about stepping off a curb and getting...
Cole also was valued for his contribution to discussions about curricular issues. In fact, some of Cole's recommendations in his Chronicle of Higher Education article--such as reporting the mean grades for all courses on students' transcripts in order to curb grade inflation--have been considered by the Faculty Council...
...overshot the mark. Liquor had reduced her judgment to where her affection for me didn't mean so much. And a few minutes later, when she asked me to stop the car and I helped her out and held her as she bent over and vomited in the curb, sex became the last thing on my mind, truly the very last...
Congressional leaders agreed on a package of reforms that will curb the power of special interest lobbyists -- or at least expose them for what they are. The legislation, expected to get House and Senate approval in the next few days, would require all professional influence-peddlers to register and disclose whom they're shilling for, how much they're paid and the issues on which they're lobbying. (Those not registered would be limited to treating their Congressional rep to a meal costing $20 or less.) How will it change politics? Hard to tell, besides embarrassing some corporations and special...