Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this last week, Diana discussed private issues such as her bulimia, her infidelity, and her thoughts on what she once referred to as "this f--ing family." While this may have won her the support of the public, Diana's motives and methods reveal her to be hardly a victim of the system. Her public reception highlights a society where sympathy increasingly goes to squealers...
...UNDER EERIE YELLOW strobe lights at 3 a.m. in Tel Aviv's newly named Yitzhak Rabin Square, Yigal Amir again fired a pistol at a victim less than a yard away. This time the gun was a toy and the Prime Minister, whom Amir assassinated on the same spot 12 days before, was played by a policeman. Amir wore a white bulletproof vest, and a chain around his waist yoked him to police escorts while he coolly re-enacted the killing for official video cameras. "Murderer, die! Maniac! You piece of garbage!" shouted Israelis from behind the barricades...
...scrapping of the Wigand interview prompted instant speculation that news decisions had fallen victim to the corporate bottom line, it was force of habit. Since taking control of CBS in 1986, Tisch has been a bottom-line boss. He sold off key pieces of the company (notably CBS's publishing and music divisions), instituted drastic cost-cutting measures and shied away from paying big bucks at key junctures. Two years ago, CBS lost its perennial Sunday-afternoon N.F.L. football franchise when it was outbid for the games by Rupert Murdoch's Fox network. A few months later the network lost...
...broad impression among undergraduates that the Core fails to meet its goal of making, "Harvard undergraduate education useful, engaging and enlivening." The faculty must ask whether a student ought to memorize and regurgitate or read and discuss. Moreover, those few Cores which do captivate the student fall victim to over-subscription, exacerbating the already prevalent disinterest...
...three and a half years to forgive and forget." When one bottle of champagne was opened in the Bosna hotel in downtown Sarajevo Tuesday evening, Bartolini says, "The cork hit a chandelier and shattered it. And one of the people there said, 'Let's hope that's the last victim...