Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lucky. Some Macoutes were stoned to death. Several who participated in the murder last year of former presidential candidate Yves Volel were seized by an enraged crowd, dragged to the St. Jean Bosco Church, savagely beaten, then set on fire. At least twelve Macoutes last week fell victim to the selective new dechoukage. Bowing to pressures from the junior officers, Haiti's new, self- declared President, Brigadier General Prosper Avril, replaced all the top military commanders...
Bird will have none of that. In Forest Whitaker's performance (which is softly gliding in manner, ultimately wrenching in effect), Parker is an innocent, but he is not the victim of anyone but himself. His is the innocence not of the artist saint, self-consciously trying to soar beyond conventional morality, but that of the child egoist, unconsciously trapped in a premorality where appetite -- including the one for music -- is destiny, and escape to adulthood is not an option...
...referral service for its 237,000 employees and 33,000 retirees. In the first month alone, more than 4,000 employees called for help. Bobby Sloan, 55, an IBM equipment designer in San Jose, Calif., used the service to arrange medical care for his mother, a 78-year-old victim of Alzheimer's disease who lives 2,000 miles away in Ponca, Okla. Says he: "I don't believe I could have done it without them." Transamerica, Arthur Andersen and Aetna Life & Casualty offer similar services...
Last year Holy Cross was unholy in victory. The team rolled to huge margins--41-6 over Harvard, 41-0 over Brown, 63-6 over Lehigh. Duffner was accused of running up the score. With a weaker team this year, the Cross is likely to find itself the victim of retaliation...
...film is loosely based on the true story of a couple who were involved in the bombing of a napalm factory in which someone was killed. In Running, the events are changed, and we are told the victim is only wounded, presumably to avoid alienating viewers from the fictitious couple, Annie (Christine Lahti) and Arthur Pope (Judd Hirsch) and their two sons Danny (River Phoenix) and Harry (Jonas Abry...