Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the start, al Fayed has portrayed himself as the victim of English arrogance, xenophobia and racism. Elites, he contends, resent him for owning Harrods. "It sticks in their throats," he told the Times. But the Fayeds have also inflicted much damage on themselves, starting with their unsuccessful attempts to rewrite their history. In 1985 the largely unknown Fayed brothers paid $689 million in cash for the House of Fraser retail chain (whose flagship was Harrods). Two years later, the Department of Trade and Industry--at the instigation of al Fayed's chief rival for control of Harrods--began investigating...
...wasn't the princess complicit in her fate? Didn't she, by courting the tabloid media, not only bring her fate upon herself, but deserve it? So commentators have begun to speculate, with that instinct for blaming the victim that characterizes the most puritanical sense of justice. By refusing to live a lie for the sake of patriarchal order, Princess Diana exposed the hypocrisy of the Establishment to the glare of commoners. She did not, or could not, play the role of Prince Charles' wife, but chose rather to live by the truth. And the bad luck, the repeated "poor...
...Harvard University Police Department provided small space rescue equipment, and one Facilities Maintenance employee joined Cambridge officials to help retrieve the victim...
Abramian, who has been homeless since he lost his job at the University, said he was the victim of a pattern of discriminatory treatment from supervisors, including disproportionate disciplinary measures and ethnic slurs...
JERUSALEM: On her first official visit to the Middle East, Albright has clearly brought her own inimitable public style to the task: emotional, direct, and with a touch of fire. In Jerusalem, surrounded by bomb victims at the Hadassah University hospital at Mount Scopus, Albright was at her grimmest. "When you actually see the people and see the individual injuries, it brings it home," she said. And when the mother of a 19 year-old victim urged Albright to bear the suicide attacks in mind "when you hug Arafat," Madeleine cut her short. "I am not going to hug Arafat...