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Rounding out the rest of the eight-team regatta were last fall's GDBC champion MIT (94), Salem State (102), Boston University (103), Boston College (124), Northeastern (139) and Brandeis...
CONGRESS isn't the only arm of government making these odd linguistic judgments on rape. In its human rights reports on the U.S.-backed government in El Salvador, the State Department has taken to calling rape--standard punishment for women political prisoners--a form of "psychological torture," as distinct from beatings and burnings, which are placed in a category of physical torture. How, exactly, can a man "psychologically", and not physically, rape a woman...
...going to decide what's "psychological" or "forcible" and what's not? The Secretary of State? Congress? The news media? The courts? Are women going to have to go to court to "prove" they've been victims of "psychological torture" or "forcible rape" in order to get Medicaid funding for abortions, or in the worst scenario, in order to get abortions...
...They were one of the very last unorganized groups left at the university and one of the very few left in state government," he said. "We look forward to this happening in other states and think it's a good sign...
Massachusetts' public higher education was declared in a state of financial emergency earlier this week by the Board of Regents of Higher Education. That followed a $35 million statewide cut ordered in the face of the state's $340 million deficit...