Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each month American Rifleman, the journal of the National Rifle Association, features about a dozen such accounts of armed citizens defending themselves against criminals. Based on newspaper clippings submitted by N.R.A. members, the stories dramatically show how a gun can sometimes prevent a crime and perhaps even save a victim's life...
...surface realism notwithstanding, this movie must be read symbolically, especially since it is presented as a dream that overtakes Eriksson years later, when he encounters a young Oriental woman on a train who reminds him of the long-ago victim. In the dream, Meserve -- arrogant, competent, headlong (in short, a born American leader) -- is an archetype of the worst in the national character. Eriksson -- frail-looking but articulate and morally alert -- is the beleaguered best. The remainder of the unit is, of course, the hulking, muddled majority, all too willing to be conned by anyone who seems to be sure...
...headless, handless body of a woman covered with green algae was fished out of a lake in upstate New York. The hospital pathologist who performed the autopsy judged the slim, athletically built victim to be in her 20s and said she had been dead three weeks. A few days later, medical examiner Michael Baden autopsied the body and came to a startlingly different conclusion. Bone spurs on the woman's spine and her atrophied ovaries revealed that she was about 55 years old, and microscopic study of the algae indicated that the body had been in the water at least...
...hospital pathologists to do the autopsy. Those unfamiliar with signs of violence may confuse gunshot entrance and exit wounds or may be unable to tell whether a fractured skull was caused by a fall or a blow. Or they may ignore important evidence, such as the contents of a victim's stomach or hairs and fibers left on clothing or skin...
...make the prosecution's case stronger, a medical examiner may be pressured to say a woman was raped before she was murdered, though the evidence is equivocal. Or the M.E. may be pushed to attribute the death of a person in police custody to the victim's use of cocaine rather than a choke hold applied by officers. M.E.s may deny being subjected to such nudging, but they agree that their independence must be guarded...