Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system is so biased against the victim that the victim is never heard. As a result, victims aren't willing to bring their cases forward, and then the university doesn't believe that such cases happen," said senior Jennifer S. Hirsch, co-chairman of the sexual harrassment, education and prevention task force at Princeton's Women's Center...
...Western reporters last week, had been an early critic of the ex-party chief's six major "errors," one of which was that he encouraged too much buying of consumer goods. But China watchers are wondering if Deng is still leading the crackdown or, like Hu, has become a victim of it. Says one Peking intellectual: "At the very least, Deng's recent moves have been forced and involuntary...
...gives poignant impact to Miller's new one-acts, collectively titled Danger: Memory!, at New York City's Lincoln Center. One is a kitchen slice of life between elderly friends, the other a charged and almost surreal interview between a hostile police detective and the father of a murder victim. What links them is a parallel revelation: in each, a man about Miller's age admits that after basing his life on progressive principles, he is no longer sure these tenets do the world any good. Taken together, the plays amount to a cry from the heart for lost certitude...
...biggest gambles of his 16 years in power. He sent 7,500 Syrian troops into West Beirut to try to restore order there -- a task that several countries, including the U.S., France, Israel and Syria itself, had previously tried without success. Was Assad about to become the latest victim of Lebanon's endless civil war, or could he restore peace to the troubled land...
Oedipus Rex: now there was a great mystery plot. The detective is the murderer; his mother is the femme fatale; his father is the victim. And Faust: a good chase tale. Guy sells his soul to the devil, then chases after secrets of life and death. Today, though, the mysteries are more mundane, the deals more damning. Like why in hell was Angel Heart -- a detective story about secret loves and profane pacts -- ever considered worthy of an X by the movie industry's rating board...