Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week is this: One of my acquaintances, whom I used to describe as a casual friend, is a date rapist. Probably many of us could tell similar stories; I have no proof of it, since I learned of the incident second-hand and I do not know the victim's name...
...would be unethical, I know, to tell anyone else, since I don't know the whole story and can prove nothing. I will ask my friend to talk to the victim, to try to convince her to come forward and press charges; still, I know this is unlikely to work. Trapped at the end of a chain of whispers and secrets, I am speaking out as best I can. I want to beg any woman who has been raped to fight back publicly, to break out of the silence that frightens and oppresses all women. And I challenge every member...
...white, heterosexual, female virgin who never used intravenous drugs and was infected during dental treatment, Kimberly Bergalis was all but universally termed an "innocent" victim of AIDS. To gay men with AIDS, however, this locution was profoundly upsetting: it implied that they were "guilty" and deserved their doom. Many felt that the Bergalis family let itself be used by hatemongers and that Kimberly's plea for universal testing of health-care workers would wrongly shift emphasis to safeguarding the "innocent" mainstream instead of finding a cure...
...last count, Genevieve Chelius, Sarah Winters, Emily Buxton, Maria Hennessy and Erin Cleary had all fallen victim to some sort of shin injury. None, however, will miss the NCAA playoffs...
Great salesman that he is, Clinton can be viewed as a victim of his own success. His insistence on deficit reduction -- and his cajoling of Congress to support a multiyear plan to accomplish it -- is the very definition of courage in modern American politics. "He has stirred into life a debate from which the republic could have greatly benefited had it taken place a decade earlier," says the historian Arthur Schlesinger. "He has broken the taboo that has long banned the tax question from public discussion." Should he then be blamed when Republicans follow his lead and scuttle a pork...