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Last year, I was hospitalized after being badly beaten by my boyfriend simply because I wanted to attend a family outing. I felt that the beatings were my fault and that I could withstand the punishment. But when my child also became a victim, I finally woke up. I have since started college at the age of 35, and begun to work and spend time with my family. It is hard to leave a relationship, but you must be strong-minded and strong-willed and get out. No one should ever take abuse...
That cruising continued into the first part of the spring season. The team woke from the long winter beat BU, 5-4 on March 16. And then, on a trip to California, it continued its winning ways, dismantling Cast State-Northridge, 9-0, and Colorado...
...most of the past three years, Radcliffe has been a mystery institution that periodically issued a report on its own status, a cryptic "R" in the abbreviated name of some student group. Suddenly this year, students woke from their blissful ignorance and entered a debate over whether this nonentity should continue to non-exist. Earnest pieces on Radcliffe began to clutter the 10,000 magazines of Harvard. The Radcliffe fracas even won the ultimate mark of legitimacy, an Istitute of Politics debate in its honor...
First to be apprehended are Juan and Jose, spotted strolling along the sidewalk. "I woke up late," Jose explains halfheartedly as he and Juan are hustled into the van. The cops, of course, have heard it all before. "I had one girl tell me, 'Today is my day to get pregnant,"' Krajeski recalls, shaking his head. "I said, 'Excuse me?' I had to ask her to repeat it because I thought I heard her wrong. 'I'm going to meet my boyfriend,' she said. 'I want to be a young mother -- I want to have four children by the time...
Scary Fact Number One: I woke up this morning to see that Jeff Kent, second baseman for the illustrious New York, is leading the National League in home runs with...