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Tabulating the answers from a cross section of 4,000 women, the survey authors estimated that more than 12 million American women have been raped at least once in their life, but the true shocker is that 61% of rape victims were younger than 18 at the time of their attack. Three out of 10 had not yet reached their 11th birthday. In almost 80% of cases the victim knew her rapist...
They are not, however, quite ready for tonight's season-ending shocker: Peppermint Blunsten (Joe's daughter) has fallen in love with--you guessed it--the evil Tycoon...
...Waller's remarks. "Absolutely imbecilic," said another. Soldiers are not supposed to tell such secrets to the enemy. In truth, what Waller said should come as no surprise to anyone who has been tracking the progress of American deployment in the gulf. That he said it, however, was a shocker. Waller's indiscretion signaled to Saddam that the Rubicon may not be crossed on Jan. 15, thereby undercutting Washington's effort to scare him out of Kuwait without a fight...
...Saturday, those leased horses played like thoroughbreds in the men's shocker over Yale...
First came the score from Ithaca, N.Y., where the Big Green had utilized three Dean Durkin field goals to take an 11-6 decision from the undefeated Cornell Big Red. Then the shocker, a late touchdown gave Brown a 24-17 decision over also-undefeated Penn in Providence. And finally, the expected Yale blowout over Columbia, 31-7, produced the logjam at the top of the league standings. Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn and Yale all lie at 2-1 with four games remaining to be played...