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...BROWN 27--Brown's still riding high off last week, when the Bruins won at the Yale Bowl for the first time in 20 years. URI will win the battle of Rhode Island anyway. No one will care. Everybody will be in Newport...
Comer, who had called a lay day for Monday for fear of the light winds predicted for Rhode Island Sound, found himself in similar unfavorable conditions for most of today's race. Southwest winds of 10 knots blew under bright skies at the start...
Nine states, all east of the Mississippi River except South Dakota, look to be smaller in the year 2000: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York on the East Coast and, toward the industrial Great Lakes, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois...
...agonized at home in Rhode Island over the grand alternatives of returning to a mediocre school experience or counting failure as a model in one more city, my grandparents phoned. For the 20th time since I'd left Harvard, they deluged me with dire predictions of what kind of future lay in store for a college dropout--no job, no money, no place in society, no friends, and, of course, no respect from Korean relatives. I was galvanized. School was definitely out of the question. I moved to New York immediately...
Historically, batterers have fallen between the cracks, being neither nuts nor criminals, at least by the standards of the day. "A man beats up his wife because he can," says University of Rhode Island Sociologist Richard Gelles, one of the pioneers in the study of family violence. Indeed, a man usually does not beat up his boss or male acquaintances. The consequences?loss of job, a charge of criminal assault, an old-fashioned black eye?are simply too great. Now the consequences are rising for violence against one's wife. Shelters for abused women have created a safety...