Word: vendettas
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...during the usual summer recess. Brushing off suggestions that the new laws are made-to-order, Pecorella said, "They apply to everyone." Still he told TIME that the political implications of his client's case are undeniable. Berlusconi and a co-defendant - Previti - insist they are victims of a vendetta from left-leaning judges and prosecutors. Asked Pecorella: "If there were a prosecutor in England - let's say, an anarchist - who was trying at all costs to put the Queen on trial, wouldn't there be cause for concern?" Previti made a surprise appearance in court on Friday after months...
...That employee, who retired not long ago from his position as a guard supervisor but still fears retribution if identified, told me that Chester staff members sometimes provoke Yoder in hopes that he will become violent and provide grist for his next commitment hearing. "[The administration] had a vendetta against him because he beat them in court," says the former supervisor. "Some guards take his property. They taunt him." The ex-employee says Yoder never started fights on his unit. "I'm an ex-police officer. I know violence. Rodney's not violent...
...Blame Game By DONALD MACINTYRE Seoul Virtually the only person italian officials did not blame for their team's shock defeat by South Korea was Osama bin Laden. Italy, the country that invented vendetta, wasn't content merely to point fingers, either. Someone had to take the fall. The victim: Ahn Jung Hwan, who scored the golden goal for Korea that knocked Italy out of the Cup. Prior to his hometown heroics, Ahn was an unremarkable player for Perugia in Italy's Serie A league. Perugia president Luciano Gaucci last week booted Ahn off the team. "I have no intention...
...some of that billing, although it was overblown... [Now] Hoover is seen as a shrewd bureaucratic genius who cared less about crime than about perpetuating his crime-busting image... He was a petty man of towering personal hates. There was more than a tinge of racism in his vicious vendetta against Martin Luther King Jr.... His informers, infiltrators and wiretappers delved into the activities of even the most innocuous and nonviolent civil rights and antiwar groups, trampling on the rights of citizens to express grievances against their Government... As an administrator, he was an erratic, unchallengeable czar, banishing agents...
...issues that affect the student body and beyond—not petty, personal grievances, as expressed by Ross G. Douthat ‘02 (Opinion, “Suzanne Pomey’s Harvard,” Feb. 4). Not only did he display a personal and unprofessional vendetta against Pomey (for her failure to say “hi” to him on the street), but he also made uninformed conclusions regarding her social involvements and her personal relationships with her friends on campus in his comment that, “hardly anyone has stepped forward to defend...