Word: victimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HUPD responded to a report of a bicyclist who was hit by a car along Soldiers Field Rd. at about 5 p.m. The victim was transported to a local hospital where he was treated and released. State Police are investigating the incident. March...
Byrd's murder was a heinous crime against a man and his family, but it was also something larger. Lynching is the iconic Old South crime, used to punish slave insurrections. Lynch mobs traditionally hanged their victim from a rope tossed over a tree limb. But dragging deaths were not uncommon, first from horses, later from cars and trucks. Lynching was at once a brutal act of vigilante injustice and a larger statement--a warning to blacks to remain subservient...
...what he had in mind was a racial killing. As it turned out, opportunity--in the form of Byrd ambling along the highway--presented itself a few weeks before July 4. It seemed precisely the kind of dramatic action King had been working toward. King dragged his victim's severed torso through a black part of town and dumped it near a black church and cemetery. He wanted Byrd's death to fulfill the traditional function of a lynching. "It was designed to strike terror into the community," a government witness said...
...right time in the right place. The Kurds in northern Iraq were just another bunch of bickering agitators until the U.S. needed them to challenge Saddam Hussein. No one cared a whit for the Kosovars until Slobodan Milosevic ground them into the dirt. (It obviously helps to be the victim of a reviled dictator.) But Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka: Your moment has yet to arrive...
...Sales in skis like the Salomon Super Mountain, Volkl Cross Ranger and K2 X-15 ($675-$729), which suit all terrains and conditions, are up too. So are sales of avalanche probes, shovels and beacons--signaling devices that help rescuers locate a buried skier. Time is crucial--an avalanche victim has an 86% chance of survival if found within 15 minutes...