Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actually killed by a jealous husband or business rival. Sometimes the only thing clear is that something unspeakably horrible has happened. In one incident, three soldiers were arrested for raping and killing a young girl in the provincial capital of San Vicente in late 1983. They claimed the victim had been a "subversive," but according to the girl's family her only crime was that she had repeatedly resisted the advances of one of the soldiers...
...common explanation for sexual harassment on campus is that faculty are daily bombarded with the temptation of young women who are so physically desirable that they cannot be ignored. People typically respond to a report of sexual harassment by asking if the victim is pretty. After hearing a coed's complaint, deans and department heads frequently express shock at a faculty member's behavior by commenting. "She isn't even that attractive. "The attempt to establish the woman's beauty as a cause of sexual harassment diverts attention from the real power issue. It is a standard was of discounting...
...baffling underside of the controversies--at Harvard and elsewhere--over how to punish offenders. An administrator who argues, as Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky did two years ago, that the nature of the punishment meted out to a convicted sexual harasser should not be revealed to the harassment victim is expressing something deeper than just paternalistic bias. To some extent, he is also implying that harassment is somehow "natural"--a weakness which the faculty member has succumbed to, but which should not be allowed to ruin his career or otherwise affect the past of his life. Dzeich and Weiner...
...Olympic years do not suffer from all these maladies they proceed smoothly and non-politically to determine which athletes are the world's finest. The Olympics, which were admirably designed to allow athletes to transcend the petty problems of nationalism, have now irrevocably and unfortunately become the victim of the system that they were designed to rise above...
...title story, a megalomaniac writes a letter to a retired librarian, apologizing for an insult that the victim almost certainly does not remember. Small wonder. Some 35 years have passed since the young college teacher, raffishly sporting a baseball hat, walked by the library and encountered Miss Rose. She: "Oh, Dr. Shawmut, in that cap you look like an archaeologist." He: "And you look like something I just dug up." Herschel Shawmut has been reminded of his offense by a former friend, who has mailed him a blistering attack on what he was and what he has become: Shawmut...