Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House is fighting a two-front war. The first battle is the Jones trial: if Clinton prevails there, and his lawyers are confident that he will, he has a stronger case for defending himself against Starr. A victory over Jones would boost Clinton's image as the beleaguered victim and trivialize Starr's whole obstruction campaign. For this strategy to work, though, Clinton's team needs to keep Starr defending himself against leaks as well as chasing small shafts of daylight between the accounts of his principal witnesses...
...powerful enough--to create a "hostile environment." Her lawyers will have a hard time finding cases that build a precedent for the single-incident theory, but it is embedded in the harassment guidelines of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: "a single unwelcome physical advance can seriously poison the victim's working environment," they say. Is a poisoned environment a hostile environment? That's up to a jury...
...said what it doesn't mean, however, the high court left wide open what it does mean to discriminate "because of" gender. A lower court had held that male-on-male harassment counts as discrimination only if the harasser is gay, since the gay harasser is clearly choosing his victim because of his gender. And Scalia agreed that homosexuality could be contributing evidence. This part of the ruling could lead to investigations that "out" accused harassers to prove discrimination...
...Speights [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 16] said, "Starr seems to think it's O.K. to break the law to enforce the law." Our individual rights, along with the truth, do not seem to matter if they do not fit in with the power elite's agenda. Anyone can be a victim. Wake up, America! KAREN CAGLE Fort Collins, Colo...
...YORK: Imagine chatting with a student online and agreeing to meet up face-to-face for dinner -- only to find yourself tied up in his apartment and sexually abused with hot candle wax for more than 20 hours. That?s what prosecutors allege happened to the 21-year-old victim of Oliver Jovanovic, a Columbia University graduate student whose trial opens Monday in Manhattan...