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...going to school like usual but I was bored and had no money. My boyfriend, the guy I lost my virginity to, had just broken up with me. I wouldn't do enjo kosai if I had a boyfriend. Losing him was really rough. So I just left a message about myself on a cyber message board and chose a sex partner from the guys who wrote back. It wasn't hard. Guys who want sex and dinner, guys who just want sex, guys who just want dinner - they're all out there. They leave messages like, "Any girl...
...Cornell has hit a few rough patches as of late--its sweep over Princeton last weekend notwithstanding--and its weaknesses will only be magnified on the big sheet at Lake Placid...
...impressive finish for Harvard seemed like a long shot just a period before, when the game was almost taken out of the Crimson's hands by rough play on both sides and some suspect officiating...
...professional Taiwan watchers there, who failed to call the outcome, were suddenly looking for new jobs. Enter Zhou. When he arrived in the U.S. for quiet talks with the new Administration, Zhou carried Beijing's latest ideas on Taiwan, polished by his modern sensibilities, though still hewn from the rough stone of Chinese insistence. It was a low-key visit, but Zhou did find time to sit down and explain a linguistic tweak he had been peddling around town...
...states will be required to test all students in third through eighth grades--22 million kids--every year in math and reading. That's big money for K-12 testmakers, a market currently dominated by textbook publishers but one that ETS is poised to join. After a rough decade of losses caused by a heavy investment in computer-based exams, ETS last year--for the first time in its history--hired a businessman, not an educator, to run the company. And looking to seize a large chunk of the pre-college testing market, it launched a for-profit subsidiary...