Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blood we sacrifice you," murmured one of the 250 onlookers, as others shouted, "Palestine is Arab!" The ceremony was a mock funeral for Jihad Ibrahim Badr, 16, one of the two Palestinians killed during the Easter morning shooting on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Both Badr and the other victim, Salah Alyamani, had already been buried in a tiny, fenced-off cemetery underneath the eastern wall of the Old City that is devoted to the Muslim victims of the 1936 Arab uprising against the British and of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. But the Palestinians were exploiting the rage over Badr...
...players grin eerily out into space. Sometimes they beat the walls with sticks. Sometimes, they pick a victim and surround him, chanting. When they get really upset, they take off their clothes. And as punked-out zombies scream from the stage, alternately mocking and seducing the audience, our exclusion becomes part of the thrill...
...more alarming note, we must see to it that we are protected physically as well. The University Police have a good record with the gay community and we have an interest in keeping it that way. We cannot allow the assault victim to hear. "Well, what did you expect" Gay people have a right to expect that they will be protected here. Our campus police must be commended for their understanding and we must help them continue to serve...
...most of the columns in this collection have the desired effect. But some demonstrate what happens when he overuses his stylistic devices. Will, more than any other writer, quotes from other sources, and his reading list goes from government document to Jane Austen. But he often pedantingly falls victim to the temptation to quote, it seems, for the sake of quoting...
...company, however, was in part a victim of the trend toward using regular Detroit models as cabs. Though standard sedans are less roomy than Checker cabs, they have become far more economical to own and operate. With the passing of the big boxy taxi, only the riders will suffer...