Word: victimizer
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...knife was wielded by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian associate of Osama bin Laden's believed to be the kingpin behind the recent attacks in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was nearly captured there last year, says a U.S. official. But the terrorist may have picked a particularly inappropriate victim, a young man who, according to his father, was a do-gooder trying to help the Iraqi people. Says the elder Berg: "They killed their best friend." --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon/Washington, Adam Pitluk/West Chester and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad
RUNNING. JOHN RAMSEY, 60, father of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, victim of a still unsolved 1996 murder in Boulder, Colo.; for the House of Representatives in Michigan, where the family now lives. Ramsey has vowed not to let lingering speculation about his family's role in the murder keep him from serving the public...
...officer was sent to Park Drive in Boston in response to the attempted robbery of a Harvard-affiliate who was the victim of an attempted robbery. The incident occured in the vicinity of Park Drive and Jersey Street in the early morning hours of May 3. The officer urged the victim to contact the Boston Police Department to file a report...
...Saget (the girls' dad on Full House), we get to observe the mortification of some fine comic actors: Eugene Levy as a truant officer who thinks he's Dirty Harry, Andrea Martin as a Senator, Andy Richter as a klutzy villain and Darrell Hammond as the hapless victim of the twins' artless physical comedy...
...suddenly avoiding real estate like a termite-infested house. Last month the average real estate investment trust (REIT) fell 15%. Yet if the past few years have taught us anything, it's that a slug of real estate lends tremendous stability to an investment portfolio. So don't fall victim to the rate jitters. REITs can thrive so long as any interest-rate climb is slow and takes place over an extended period, says Christopher Haley, a REIT analyst at Wachovia Securities. And that's just the scenario many economists anticipate, as the rebounding economy finally generates jobs and pushes...