Word: victimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doubts about Columbine victim CASSIE BERNALL'S last words aren't dampening sales of her mother's book, an account of the 17-year-old's journey from a problem youth to model Christian. She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall sold 300,000 copies in its first three weeks...
CHRIS ZIMMERMAN of Plough Publishing House and MISTY BERNALL went ahead with the book even though the Jefferson County sheriff's office and the mother of another victim advised them that DYLAN KLEBOLD or ERIC HARRIS may not have asked Cassie if she believed in God just before she was fatally shot last April 20. The question may have been put instead to VALEEN SCHNURR, 18, who lay wounded under another table. She replied yes, she says. As the gunman reloaded, he asked, "Why?" "Because I do believe, and my mom and dad taught me to." The gunman then walked...
...people is obsessed with hockey. They don't watch TV or movies, and to the outsider, they don't even seem to have jobs. They eat, drink and breathe hockey. Even the first graders are in on the latest hockey gossip. The trouble begins when this dinky city falls victim to a publicity stunt directed by one of their own former residents who is in search of big city fame. His article in Sports Illustrated sparks interest in Mystery's "Saturday Game" hockey club, the central artery of the town's existence, bringing a flurry of attention to the tiny...
...know that, as a homeless woman, she is more likely than not to have been a victim of sexual violence both at home and on the street, but that's just from statistics, not from any knowledge of her specific situation. Because I really don't know anything about this woman, I would never think to write an opinion piece condemning her as lazy, conniving, undeserving, and fat, because to do so would be an embarrassing display of my ignorance and mean-spiritedness. It's too bad that George Hicks does not have the same self-censoring mechanism...
...Chinese-made semiautomatic SKS rifle, to the Simon's Rock College officials who failed to detain Lo even after they were warned that he had a gun. The result is a tapestry of shared pain and guilt in which everyone, including the killer, is in some sense a victim...