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...every girl had to be one or the other: smart or pretty." From McCafferty's Sloppy Firsts: "Sabrina was the brainy Angel. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart.") Viswanathan said she had read McCafferty but called herself the victim of a photographic memory. "Somewhere in her mind, she crossed an invisible line with this material and didn't realize that the words so easy and available to her were not her own," says her agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh...
...guests. And I never see security around.” Susan B. Marine, director of the Office of Sexual Assault, said that it is rare for a student to be sexually assaulted by a stranger, like in this case. “85-90 percent of the time, the victim knows the perpetrator, at least as a friend or as an acquaintance,” Marine said. A 25 year-old Lesley graduate student, Molly A. Rigsby, said that she usually has class until late in the evening, and her professors made all the students walk in pairs back...
...back to their homes with safety and dignity,” Osman continued. He stressed that while the government had stopped aerial bombardments, the situation was far from calm, with thousands dying in “concentration camps” each day. Over 3500 villages in Darfur have been victim to aerial raids followed by the complete destruction of their water and food sources, Fashir said, adding that as of August 2005, over three million people had been affected or displaced to “concentration camps” during the conflict. Osman said his village has been attacked twice...
...Brunnig, who shuttled to the plate to take his third at-bat out of the designated hitter spot—he went 0-for-3—before returning to the pen to continue his warm-ups, entered the game in the eighth and also fell victim to the lethal Reynoso-Frates combination. The duo, which finished the day a combined 7-for-7 with seven RBI, strung together back-to-back singles to key a two-run rally. “They’re a good hitting team,” Haviland said. “Their last...
...Racial overtones aside, sexual assault is a horrifyingly common crime in this country (about one in six American women is a victim of rape or attempted rape, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network). The town-gown relations between Duke and Durham have been historically uneasy. And one would expect better from students at one of the country's top-ranked universities. We definitely expect better than the vile e-mail written by one of the players, Ryan McFayden, in which he invited his friends to watch him kill more strippers and "cut their skin...