Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been barnstorming North America, demolishing selected college hockey teams around the country. Harvard, playing its first game of the season, was college hockey victim number nine for the Olympians, who have beaten their collegiate opponents by a collective 89-20 count. The victory was the Olympians' 16th out of 28 games on a rigorous 60-game tour, which features contests against pro, college and other Olympic teams...
...Cheers mode, but it has grown increasingly audacious and appealing. In one episode, the family of a man killed at the wheel of his truck threatens to sue the restaurant for serving him too many drinks; a white lawyer travels into the black ghetto to discover that the victim actually committed suicide. In another show, Frank (Tim Reid) is courted by a high-class black men's club, which practices its own form of race discrimination. Prospective members are traditionally given a "paper bag" test: only those with skin lighter than the bag are asked to join. The messages...
Other presumptive cases are emerging from the past. In New York City in 1959, for example, a 49-year-old Haitian-born shipping clerk fell victim to what today would be a telltale disorder: Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. "It was so unusual at the time," recalls Dr. Gordon Hennigar, who performed the postmortem and is now chairman of pathology at the Medical University of South Carolina. "AIDS is such a strong possibility that I've often thought about getting the samples and testing them...
Yale's two losses last week (to Rhode Island and Dartmouth) dropped the Elis out of the top 20 for the first time in five weeks. Also absent from the poll was Columbia, the victim of Cornell's first Ivy triumph...
Vieira's attorney, David Wexler, contended during the trial that the victim, then 22, shared some responsibility for encouraging the attack by drinking and flirting with...