Word: strangerness
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...there being interaction between the offender and victim," observes agent Peter Smerick. "If it's not there, there isn't much we can do." Analysts scrutinize a detailed work-up of the victim that includes physical characteristics, preferred clothing, sexual habits, likely response to an approach by a stranger and reaction during an attack. With that information, they reconstruct the sequence of events before, during and after the crime...
Kerrigan, who transferred from the University of Virginia after her sophomore year, is no stranger to controversies at Harvard. Last year, she hung a Confederate flag from her window in Peabody Terrace, until her superintendent asked her to remove it, a move she says "disillusioned...
...poignant scene is played out time and again in America's courtrooms. A small, bewildered child sits in a witness chair, being led by an attorney through shocking testimony. The youngster speaks haltingly of unspeakable things done to him or her by a stranger, a baby-sitter or even a parent. Could such an innocent soul possibly be telling anything but the truth...
Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson is no stranger to the carrot-and-stick approach to welfare: one state program withholds benefits from families whose kids cut class, another docks benefits from some recipients who don't work or get job training. But his Parental and Family Responsibility Initiative, a scheme linking welfare benefits to marriage and birth control, may be his most controversial idea...
...primary lecturer for one of Harvard's most prominent Core courses, Martin S. Feldstein '61 is no stranger to campus life...