Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lagging returns--just as foreignstocks started to level off. In fiscal 1992,Harvard earned a paltry 1.3 percent on its foreignequity holdings, compared to 14.4 percent on U.S.stocks. Meanwhile, Harvard's holdings in thespeculative real estate and commodities sectors,staked out in the early 1980s under Cabot, werepummeled, the victim of depressed markets and poorinvestment choices...
...course was a victim of the planning for the Harvard fund drive, according to Rudenstine...
Acts of contrition followed. To a victim of one of his nasty ploys as a college Republican, he wrote, "I was the cause of all the dirty politics and unsavory behavior . . . Politics for me had degenerated into a cheap play for power. I now realize that politics is a noble calling to serve God and my fellow...
...place at hundreds of sites around the country. In Glenwood Landing, New York, the EPA found 235 parties responsible, including not just major corporations but also a film-developing shop and a pizza parlor. One of those parties was Pat Genzale of Franklin Square, New York, a bona fide victim of Superfund's liti-gious excess. Genzale, who was going broke trying to comply with EPA orders to remove waste legally dumped 37 years ago on his family company's land, contracted to have some of the waste hauled to Ohio. The contractor dumped it instead at Glenwood Landing...
...victim of this affliction is Willie Morris of Yazoo City, Mississippi. In 1967, a mere 32, he became the youngest editor in chief ever of Harper's magazine. Full of himself and brimming with pep, Morris tried to aerate the old monthly, which was losing about $150,000 a year, by hiring a cadre of hard-drinking cronies that included John Corry, Marshall Frady and Larry L. King. When Morris wasn't schmoozing with the likes of John J. McCloy and Walter Lippmann at the veddy veddy Century Club, you might have found him boozing with other celebs...