Word: victimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the book, it is apparent that the ultimate goal of its writing is healing. In what I take to be the most moving passage, Professor Minow quotes Cynthia Ngewu, the mother of a murdered victim of the apartheid regime: "This thing called reconciliation...if I am understanding it correctly...if it means this perpetrator, this man who has killed [my son], if it means he becomes human again, this man, so that I, so that all of us, get our humanity back...then I agree, then I support it all." It is this searching for forgiveness, this fumbling...
...Oswald, et al.--are included, but Gabler has also recorded, for instance, the story of Robert O'Donnell, the fireman/paramedic who rescued little Jessica McClure from a well in 1987 and achieved instant celebrity. This public hero became angry when his fame quickly faded, and he subsequently became a victim of migraine headaches and a painkiller addict, lost his job, was sued for divorce and committed suicide. O'Donnell, as Gabler puts it, "had been addicted to fame, and the true cause of his death was his withdrawal from...
Another local store has fallen victim to high rents in Harvard Square. In 15 days the Mass Army/Navy Store at 1436 Mass Ave. will move to a new location at 698 Mass Ave. in Central Square...
...Yale faculty member who taught homicide victim and university undergraduate Suzanne Jovin is the lead suspect in the police investigation, the New Haven Register reported yesterday...
According to what the paper called city and university sources close to the case, the police questioned a male Yale teacher Monday and Tuesday night in addition to several other faculty members, the victim's boyfriend and others she worked with that evening...