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...based on claims by several former employees that students were "subjected to frequent obscenity-laced screaming sessions by staff members; students were deprived of sleep; a group of girls emerged from one group-therapy session with bruising on their arms after they were ordered to clasp their hands in front of them and pound a mattress for an extended period," according to the Bend Bulletin. The Oregon DHS cleared the program following the investigation...
...minutes into the fourth period, a loose ball in front of the cage caused Burke to step out and challenge, but as he strayed from goal freshman attacker Jeff Cohen gained possession and slipped the ball into the net for a Harvard goal...
...heated battle.”But the tough atmosphere does not scare Walsh or his team.“I worry about the players on the field and not the fans or the coaching staff,” Walsh said. “We’ve played in front of some wild crowds at Brown but we’ve also played in front of some wild fans around the country.”Instead, the Crimson comes into the series feeling confident. A beanpot loss to Boston College at Fenway on Monday was sandwiched in between Sunday...
...names of Waldemar Lorenzana and other members of his family under government suspicion, however, do not appear on many of the titles to their assets, officials say. Rather, those documents use front men (or women) to register businesses, which officials note is a common tactic for laundering money. "The families that run [drug trafficking] know they can't leave a trace," says the narcotics prosecutor, Ruiz...
Nowhere is this bilateral relationship more apparent than in Tijuana, the busiest border crossing on the planet. A giant launching pad for migrants, center for U.S.-owned assembly plants and strategic front in the drug trade, the city of 1.6 million has long enjoyed the best and worst of living next door to the U.S. colossus. However, that relationship has soured in recent months with news of a bloody cartel turf war that has scared many Americans away from even stepping foot in Tijuana. (See pictures of Mexico's war on drugs...