Word: victimizers
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...killing of small enterprises,” said Dimancescu. “Salaries going up will lead to social tension. Someone will try to take advantage of the situation.” With large corporations moving in to invest in the country, Dimancescu said that Romania would fall victim to “capital colonization.” “Consumer stores are foreign-owned,” he said. “The profits are going out of the country. Retaining wealth in a country is extremely hard. Perhaps the situation will get worse after Romanian entry...
...Soldier's Story, a black military officer is investigating the murder of an unpopular black soldier near an Army base in Louisiana. Sergeant Waters, the victim, brutally compels a young black private to give up his country ways and "quit thinking like a nigger." It was a rarely seen public representation of our private interactions: the impatience some blacks have with a victim mentality. Shocking. Powerful. A message to a white populace that we are not lemmings. And that even among ourselves, we're not a single tribe...
...women’s victory was nearly as decisive. The Harvard women bested Dartmouth, 8-1, with freshman Johanna Snyder the only victim, playing in the No. 7 slot...
...convicted for the murder - and the only one whose DNA was linked to the crime - has since recanted his claim that the other men were involved and now insists that he acted alone. The whole argument may seem like a stretch - it certainly did and does to the victim's family - but on Wednesday a Virginia judge accepted enough of it to rule that detectives had not honored Tice's right to remain silent and overturned his sentence after almost a decade in custody...
...decision about Tice, not surprisingly, did not sit well with the parents of the victim, who remain convinced these men killed their daughter, just as they described in their confessions. John and Carol Moore told TIME in an e-mail that they believe the evidence is "abundantly clear" that Tice is guilty of raping and murdering their daughter and don't want to see him go free on a "legal technicality." For them, all these courtroom machinations just dredge up their heartache and forestall closure. "The pain does not go away, not even for a moment...