Word: victimness
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...bombing of her homecoming rally in Karachi, at which some 150 died, are inserted almost randomly into otherwise fluid prose that appears to have been written long before. The ubiquitous references to terrorism, however, underscore an important point. As a Muslim, a political leader and later a victim, Bhutto was uniquely poised to present an impassioned argument: namely, that the war we should all be worrying about is not that between Islam and the West, but between moderate and fundamentalist Islam...
...labeled a “cult of personality.” Unlike a traditional cult, however, the rise in Obama worship seems to have emerged as a groundswell from among the general public, not as the product of a planned campaign strategy. Indeed, Obama seems to be the latest victim of a political trend that most recently subsumed Republican candidate Ron Paul. A staunch Libertarian, Paul is certainly one of the more eclectic politicians running for president—his opposition to the Iraq War and free trade made him a pariah in most of the Republican debates...
...Fabrications that hurt someone’s reputation are technically actionable—the victim could sue for defamation,” he said. “But again, that’s an awfully cumbersome process and possibly Pyrrhic victory that may not do much to ameliorate the original harm...
...conservative backers played the altercation the opposite way. Employment Minister Xavier Bertrand complained about the inordinate attention the spat had generated, though noted people "don't have the right to humiliate the president" with comments he qualified as "hurtful." Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier also cast his boss as a victim in the affair, saying, "I sense the French people have had enough of the systematic aggressiveness towards Nicolas Sarkozy (and) the government...
...public arts grants.“Brustein’s surprisingly sophomoric assumption that this tremendous outpouring of work by minority artists leads to confusing standards and that funding agencies have started substituting sociological for aesthetic criteria, leaving aside notions like quality and excellence, shows him to be a victim of 19th-century thinking and the linguistic environment that posits blacks as unqualified,” Wilson said.Brustein shot back immediately. In a piece called “Subsidized Separatism,” he referred to Wilson’s rhetoric as “the language of self-segregation?...