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Boston Ranks As One Of Nation's 'Rudest' Cities: Survey Boston Ranks As One Of Nation's 'Rudest' Cities: Survey
Boston Ranks As One Of Nation's 'Rudest' Cities: Survey They don't call them Massholes for nothing. A recent survey ranked Boston as one of the rudest communities in the country, with Beantown scoring in the top 5 behind some famously surly cities. The language e-learning site Preply questioned more than 1,500 people across the country to determine what city would earn the crankiest crown. Surveyors asked participants to rate cities based on a series of behaviors that most would consider rude, such as having your eyes glued to your phone, being noisy in a shared space, and refusing to let other drivers merge into traffic.  Ph…
Former Sports Writer Kat O'Brien Says She Was Raped By Major League     Baseball Player Former Sports Writer Kat O'Brien Says She Was Raped By Major League     Baseball Player
Former Sports Writer Kat O'Brien Says She Was Raped By Major League Baseball Player Former sports reporter Kat O'Brien has opened up about being raped by a Major League Baseball player when she was 22 years old. O'Brien -- who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business -- kept the incident a secret until now, when she told her story in a New York Times essay. The now-40-year-old writer says she had just graduated from Notre Dame and was working as a (mostly high school) sports reporter for "The Fort Worth Star-Telegram" in 2002. She was in a hotel room with an interview subject for a longer piece on foreign-born athletes in the U.S., w…