Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arbor for having posted a lurid sex-murder fantasy on the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories last November. "Torture is foreplay, rape is romance, snuff (killing) is climax," one of Baker's messages read. Ordinarily, the story might never drawn outside attention, but Baker got into trouble for giving his fictional victim the name of a real female student in one of his classes. The university president had him escorted off campus when he learned of the postings last week. Yesterday, a federal judge charged Baker with sending threatening mail over interstate wires and ordered him held without bond. (He could face...
While Venable says local people have been receptive to his "down-home cooking," he also says he has been the victim of two breakins since September...
Mexico is not the only victim of the crisis of confidence. Emerging nations that have been relying on foreign investment to underpin financial reform and build prosperity will have to do with less as a result of the cooling of investor ardor. Argentina, which like Mexico has an overvalued currency and carries substantial foreign debt, has watched $1.8 billion flee the country since the Mexican devaluation, despite firm promises by the government that the Argentine peso will not be devalued. Last year $11 billion flowed into Argentina in direct and indirect investment; this year the amount is expected to drop...
Clever Michael Crichton understood all that when he wrote his best seller Disclosure. That's why he made the aggressor a female executive, her victim a happily married man who has been passed over for her job--and with whom, a decade earlier, she had a hot affair. The role reversal alone gives the story some curiosity value. It may even be, as people connected with the movie version keep insisting in interviews, that the shoe-on-the-other-foot approach to this situation will Make You Think...
...assures the baffled George, ``needs assistance. It needs sharing. Anything you want to share?'' What Katy wants is a big share of George's money, to stake her to a London outlet for her West Coast flimflam. For all his rapture in her, George proves to be a resistant victim. Unlike Katy's, his spirit is dull and earthbound. He remembers his own humble roots before he prospered in a packaging business, before his best friend--a carefree chap whose background was similar to his--died of cancer. As the fool in George plots marriage, the essential George--bland--walks...