Word: blackmailed
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...spoke up for her anterior as well. "My boobs looked good," Diaz testified at the trial of a photographer who tried to sell her topless photos of herself. Prosecutors say John Rutter forged Diaz's signature on a release form for pictures he took in 1992 and tried to blackmail her into buying the photos in 2003. Rutter denies it. "I've never felt so violated," Diaz said. And male computer users have never felt so hopeful...
Soviet ministries have taken to issuing glossy pamphlets to advance the Kremlin line. One of them, Star Wars: Delusions and Dangers, appeared last week in Washington and other Western capitals. The 56-page booklet charged the U.S. with trying to "blackmail" and "fleece" its NATO allies with a costly weapons system that would only enhance the risks of nuclear war. More than 70,000 copies have been printed in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French and Japanese...
...help combat prejudice. Homosexuality was--and still is--very much in the closet in China; Beijing had just taken it off an official list of mental disorders. Zhou's entries, signed with his own name, had an unintended consequence. Gay men from around China who had faced workplace discrimination, blackmail and even prison time started to seek his legal counsel. So Zhou, 31, decided to act on his conviction that "a good lawyer should know not only how to make money from the profession but also how to advance some mission related to social justice...
...Leahy D-VT, said in 1998: “I would object and fight against any filibuster on a judge, whether it is somebody I opposed or supported.” Tom Harkin put it even more bluntly: “[The filibuster process] is used…as blackmail for one Senator to get his or her way on something that they could not rightfully win through the normal processes.” But with the tables turned and a Republican President selecting judges, Dems have blocked about 10 out of 50 of Bush’s appellate court...
...trust and devotion. A former male prostitute, he becomes infatuated with a blond boy as pretty and venal as he used to be. Cutler knows that he is being used. Even so, his sexual itch drives him to theft, fraud and murder. Each crime makes him more subject to blackmail. The tale moves toward its climax with a mounting sense of catastrophe, but who will destroy whom, and how, remains uncertain until the final pages. Hansen writes as ably as anyone in the genre about the consequences of lust and yearning. For the nonprurient, the descriptive passages of lovemaking...