Word: victimize
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...It’s hard to blame them, with the world champion Red Sox and the Olympian Patriots. Of course, no one mentions the Celtics or Bruins anymore, mummified teams of a dead divinity. But it is really swinging from one pole of narcissism to another: first the eternal victim, now the eternal champion. Boston sports radio, infesting the airwaves and our morning dining halls, has been singing this tune all year now. And though Boston clings so piously to its musty Catholicism, it is easy to see the formation of new trinities: Bellicheck-Brady-Moss, Francona-Ortiz-Beckett...
...none of the mainstream media based in the U.K. or with British assets dares to publish the alleged victim's name. To identify him or her or to give any further details that could lead to his or her identification would be in contempt of a court order obtained by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the body responsible for prosecuting criminal cases investigated by the police in England and Wales. "It's quite normal in cases of blackmail to ask for a Section 11 order [under the 1981 Contempt of Court Act] to protect the identity of the person...
...string of recent laptop thefts have Harvard University Police Department officers investigating possible connections between the incidents, according to the student victims. “The officer who came, she said she would give it to the detective who would then possibly open up an investigation,” said Kevin C. Porter ’10 of Lowell House, one of three students whose computer was stolen from a river house dorm room in the past several days. Harvard police spokesman Steven G. Catalano would not comment on the specific incidents but wrote in an e-mailed statement that...
...escape corruption charges (which she denies) and yet another military coup. Baloch danced out the door once more, leaving his pregnant wife at home, and chanting the same slogans. But this time Baloch did not come home. His nephew found his body in a Karachi morgue, victim of a devastating suicide attack on Bhutto's homecoming procession that saw 141 dead and hundreds critically injured. More than a third of the dead and injured hailed from Lyari. The following day, Bhutto praised those in the PPP who had lost their lives, saying that their sacrifice proved that the people...
...American Muslim, and efforts like this only serve to further marginalize those living daily on the defensive. Frankly, as a liberal, feminist, American Muslim, immersed in an institution of the academic left, I am upset, but also confused—for I seem to be both victim and oppressor in Horowitz’s Manichean world...