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...knew immediately that I had been shot. I first prayed. I said a prayer that God would not let me die." CAROLINE SEAWELL, a survivor of the Washington-area sniper shootings, in testimony at the trial of suspect John Allen Muhammad...
...poor handling of two separate instances of rape perpetrated by members of the Harvard student body. Angry and concerned, over 300 members of the Harvard community rallied outside University Hall to demand that the University expel the guilty students, provide preventative education on sexual violence and improve its survivor resources and Administrative Board procedures. That was five years...
...murky bottom of Scotland's fabled Loch Ness, dauntless Englishman LLOYD SCOTT walked 26 miles over 12 days to raise money for children with leukemia. When Scott, 41, a leukemia survivor, finally emerged from the water wearing his antique diving suit and 40lb. helmet, he appeared as peculiar as anything ever rumored to be lurking there...
...Lionel A and B workshop] that didn’t want to be there and what I said to them was, ‘You might not realize this right now, but your attitude toward this workshop might be affecting people around you. Your neighbor might be a survivor and you might be alienating them,’” she says...
...says a scene in the 1985 documentary Shoah, wherein a Jewish Holocaust survivor returns to his childhood hometown in Poland, influences her opinion. While initially greeted with friendliness, Fredriksen says, “within five minutes, they are screaming at the man who they had just been affectionate and shy towards.” The sudden aggression arises out of a simple dispute over a passage in the New Testament, reinforcing the notion that anti-Semitism is still a presence in the modern world...