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'(CNN) -- A Maryland mother faces assault charges for allegedly ordering a group of teens to beat up a 14-year-old who was stabbed in the ensuing melee, Baltimore County police said Friday.

Kimberley Lyn Cudanin, 34, told her 16-year-old son and at least four of his friends to attack Malaki Malloy as retaliation for a recent assault against her 14-year-old son, police said in a news release.

On Saturday night, Cudanin drove some of the teens to where Malloy was, about a mile from her home, police said. Those teens and others at the scene then beat and stabbed Malloy and three friends who were with him, police said.

Malloy was released from the University of Maryland Medical Center's shock trauma center Monday, hospital spokeswoman Cindy Rivers said Friday.

Cudanin and her son Andre were arrested Monday and face first- and second-degree assault charges, police spokesman Bill Toohey said.'

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'The absence of strong men’s organizations became painfully evident recently in Sweden when there was a prominent debate in the media about male circumcision (there is no Swedish tradition to circumcise men, but we have lots of Muslim immigrants and also a small Jewish community that practise circumcision). The only ones who spoke up against male circumcision were a few male surgeons who refused to perform the procedure, even though the Swedish government has ordered hospitals to offer this service to those who want it. A survey later showed that two thirds of surgeons were reluctant to circumcise healthy boys.

Anyhow, the main point is that no men’s organization spoke up because there are no men’s organizations in Sweden that could speak up. Where the men’s groups should have been, was only a compact vacuum.

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'Attorneys for Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberer have formally asked a Nevada court to sanction the lawyer for the woman who accused him of rape.

Roethlisberger's attorneys claim that Cal Dunlap, the lawyer for Andrea McNulty, allowed her to bring forth a civil suit alleging rape when he knew the story was not true.

In court papers, Roethlisberger's team team said that Dunlap "welded together false allegations to punish (the plaintiff's) employer and coerce a windfall from an admired, civic minded and successful professional football star."'

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'Both rape and rape accusations are products of the roles assigned by rape culture. In the traditional seduction scenario, a woman is expected to not desire to have sex, and to only submit after the man has successfully coerced her into submission. When the preferred model for consensual sex looks a hell of a lot like rape, an array of fucked-up scenarios are inevitable: the woman never wanted to fuck the guy, refuses to submit, and is raped; the woman submits to the man’s coercion in order to avoid other negative consequences (like being raped); the woman had desired the sex all along, but must defend her femininity by saying that she had been coerced into sex. Thankfully, a good deal of modern men and women reject these antiquated ideas, but they’re far from being banished from the sexual landscape. Especially when that landscape involves four men, one woman, and freshman year of college.'

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'First Lady Michelle Obama made the case Friday morning that health care reform is a women's issue and called on female activists to support President Obama's reform plan.

"Health insurance reform and what it means for our families is very much a women's issue," Obama said, speaking to a group of female advocacy leaders at the White House. "If we want to ensure women have opportunities that they deserve, if we want women to be able to care for their families and pursue things they could never imagine, then we have to reform the system."'

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'NEW YORK (CNN) -- Four young men falsely accused of raping an 18-year-old student at Hofstra University were trying to return to their normal lives Friday after an ordeal that two of them described as traumatic.
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Authorities dropped charges and freed the four men hours after their accuser changed her story about having been forcibly tied up and sexually assaulted in a dormitory bathroom.
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The woman recanted her story Wednesday after authorities told her that part of the incident was recorded on a cell phone video, Rice said.

"That was when she began to tell the truth," she said.
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Authorities have not released the accuser's name.

"I believe that it is a question of potential safety for her, and the investigation is ongoing," Rice said.

It is against the law to report a crime when there was not one, Rice said. Authorities gave no indication whether the woman may face charges.

"Her actions and her demeanor depict a very troubled young woman in need of much help," Rice said.'

Video here. More on Dr. Edell is found here. Excerpt:

'In 1978, Edell began broadcasting regularly on KGO AM 810 radio in San Francisco. The Dr. Dean Edell radio program has been in continuous production since then, and is currently (2005) syndicated to 90 markets by Premiere Radio Networks, and airs weekday afternoons on America's Talk on XM Radio. Its opening theme music (presently, in 2008) is "You Get What You Give" by New Radicals.

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'Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Men who smoke and let fat clog their arteries die a decade earlier than those who don’t.

Scientists looking for a connection between life expectancy and cardiovascular risk factors combed through the Whitehall study, a survey of 19,019 male civil servants that started in London in the late 1960s.

They found that those who had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoked in middle age died about 10 years earlier than the others after reaching age 50. The findings are published in the latest edition of the British Medical Journal. The reduction in life expectancy was even greater when the researchers factored in body mass index and diabetes.

In the study, the researchers found smoking shortened life by about six years and married men tended to live about two years longer.'

Article here. Okay, get the barf bag ready: wives are indeed the better half. MSNBC and psychologist Carin Rubenstein say so. Women do it all; men do next to nothing. Excerpt:

'It turns out that a majority of married couples — about two out of three — are just like us: the wife is the one who can't get hit by a truck. She's the one who develops expertise in nearly all aspects of modern life; she becomes the de facto master of the marital domain while also earning a significant part of the family income.

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'An 11-year-old Fresno boy was hospitalized Wednesday after he was stabbed by a 25-year-old woman, police said.

The victim suffered injuries to his chest, collarbone and back that were not considered life-threatening, police spokesman Jeff Cardinale said.

He was in stable condition Wednesday night at Community Regional Medical Center.

Police arrested the woman and booked her into jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Police have recovered an ink pen.'

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'CANTON — A Canton man was stabbed in the chest during an argument early Thursday morning and his wife was jailed.

Tanisha Baker, 35, of 1462 Gibbs Ave. NE, was booked into the Stark County Jail on a felonious assault charge and held in lieu of $50,000 bond, jail records said.

Canton Police reports said Anthony J. Baker, 34, of the same address, was stabbed in the chest with a knife during an argument at their home at 4 a.m.

The records did not provide details about the argument.'

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'BULLHEAD CITY - Police arrested the wife of a Bullhead City Council member on Monday following a domestic violence incident at the couple's home.

Cyndie Renee McClure, 52, was arrested on suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct, both per domestic violence, at approximately 7:30 p.m. Monday in the 1500 block of Garnet Lane.

John “Mickey” McClure, 67, allegedly told police that he and his wife had been drinking at the Elks Lodge and that his wife got mad at him when they returned home and punched him in the face.'

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'ANN ARBOR, MI (Michigan Radio) - David Moran calls the 1986 trial against Karl Vinson a "scientific train wreck."

Moran is co-director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic at U of M. He says prosecutors presented false evidence at the original trial, including the fact that they called Vinson a "non-secretor," meaning his blood type wouldn't show up in any semen found at the scene of the crime.
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"We know," says Moran, "and the evidence shows, and every scientist we've consulted says that he is conclusively exonerated."'

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'The Indiana State University student who said she was raped and recanted her story could get a unique sentence.

Wednesday morning, 19-year-old Erin Conley pleaded guilty to False Informing.

The Vigo County Prosecutor will ask the Victim's Assistance office if Conley can do community service with them.

A deputy prosecutor told us they want Conley to work with actual crime victims in hopes this teaches her a valuable lesson.

It's also something they've never done before.

Conley will be sentenced September 25th.'

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'King County prosecutors have filed second-degree extortion charges against a Renton woman accused of threatening to report a former lover as a rapist if he didn't pay her $2,000.

In court documents, Mercer Island police contend that Jeanine Ann Gessner began harassing the man after he broke a date with her to attend a pre-season Seahawks game on Aug. 22.

An instant message exchange between Gessner and the man included in court filings shows a marked shift in her attitude toward him following the broken date. Initially loving, the writer whom prosecutors allege to be Gessner ultimately sent the man dozens of threatening messages.'