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According to national statistics compiled in 1988 and cited by the University of Maryland in 1994, one in four college women have either been raped or suffered attempted rape...
...story seems to begin on Sept. 28, when Israeli hard-liner Ariel Sharon decided to pay a provocative visit to the Jerusalem site both Jews and Muslims hold most holy. But that's only the last chapter in a crisis that traces its roots back to Maryland, at Camp David, in July...
...know this now not because I am so wise in the ways of matrimony but because I've been talking to Norman Epstein, a researcher at the University of Maryland who surveyed more than 1,000 married couples to try to understand why they fight. "Something trivial will set off a couple," he explains. "But underlying the fight is a more basic issue: whether the spouses hold the same standards for the relationship...
...commercial division of the Supreme Court of New York, which hears complex commercial and business disputes, was formed; last year over 5,000 cases fell under its jurisdiction. Over the past decade, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have all instituted similar "specialty" court divisions. And Maryland's governor has formulated a study group called the Business and Technology Division Task Force, whose sole responsibility is to determine whether or not the state court system should be reorganized to include a special circuit of "high-tech" courts...
...ships in Annapolis. The worst insult may have come from British Rear Admiral George Cockburn, one of the commanders of the 150 seamen who skillfully torched the city, as the Federal Government's bureaucrats, including President James Madison and his Cabinet, ran like rabbits for the open country in Maryland and Virginia. Before ordering his men to set the building on fire, Admiral Cockburn told them to choose souvenirs from among the trivial things in the White House but nothing of real value that might bring charges of looting against the invaders. Then Cockburn scandalized the nation by brandishing...