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...Crimson will travel to Fenway Park for the Beanpot Championship tomorrow at 5 p.m. against Boston College. It will look to avenge an ugly 10-0 loss to the Eagles earlier this year. Northeastern and Boston University will play at Fenway in the consolation game...
Hwang, Kim says, referred repeatedly to the baby as "the Chink," because the father was a peasant from northeastern China, where Kim had fled earlier that year. As she lay on the prison floor, Hwang demanded that she abort the fetus herself. She refused, so the guard began kicking her in the stomach. Then he beat her and, as her sister screamed, continued beating Kim until she blacked out. When she regained consciousness, she says, she "was taken to a clinic in the camp, and in the most blunt manner, they removed [the fetus] from my body...
...went to live in Onsong, a town near the border with China, and quickly decided that she would try to flee again. Her mother and an older sister had followed her out of North Korea and were living in Heilongjiang, a province in northeastern China. Refugees say the most common way to cross the 900-mile North Korea-- China border is to bribe a guard on the Korean side. Kim, however, relied on a friend who lived near the border and each night watched the routes patrolled by the guards. "You knew where they were going to be and where...
...being created. “It is out of a need for harmonized standards across the country that business actually begins to demand regulation,” Browner said. The largest state effort to regulate carbon emissions thus far is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), comprised of eight Northeastern states who agreed to stabilize emissions at current levels by 2015 and reduce them by 10 percent by 2020. Massachusetts was set to join RGGI in 2005, but Gov. Mitt W. Romney pulled the Commonwealth from the pact late last year. Browner said several times that she favors...
...Crimson, meanwhile, may have a few tricks up its sleeve. Salsgiver, usually a starting outfielder, could potentially start his first game of the season on the mound this weekend, most likely in one of Sunday’s games. Salsgiver pitched two innings of one-hit relief against Northeastern in the first round of the Beanpot Tournament, and his teammates express complete confidence in his starting abilities...