Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seduces and then rejects. Valmont delights in corrupting virtue with sensual sinfulness. Cecile Volanges (Sara Boyle '00) and Madame de Volanges (Anna Lewis '99), who are embroiled in their own mother-daughter struggle over whether Le Chevalier Danceny (Daniel Sussner '00) is suitable marriage material for Cecile, also fall victim to Valmont and Mertueil's scheme. Madame de Rosemonde (Vanessa Reisen '97), Valmont's aunt, possesses the deepest understanding of the play's web of deceit. In a downhearted acceptance of the production's cynicism, she says that "to hope to be made happy by love is a certain cause...
...victim's mother wept through much of the closing arguments...
Krowski said he planned to introduce new evidence that the teenager was the victim of cult activity. He promised jurors they would hear from a witness who saw more than 20 people carrying torches into the dark woods around the time Arruda was killed...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Crime is something we wish to prevent, rather than simply waiting until someone is a victim of a crime that must be punished...
...sense that moderation has been a victim of recent political shifts is evident in many of the departures. Maine's Cohen leaves, along with fellow moderate Republicans Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas and Mark Hatfield of Oregon. Democrats Sam Nunn of Georgia, Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Jim Exon of Nebraska are all considered middle-of-the-road Democrats. What worries many observers is that Congress's tradition of comity and compromise is disappearing along with the centrists. Not every case is so laden with deeper meaning. "It is a simple matter," said Representative Pat Williams (D-Mont.), about...