Word: victimness
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...Oprah Winfrey spoke of her childhood sexual abuse, she became a goddess in a society convinced that it's good to talk. While thousands of courageous Muslims regularly speak out on taboo subjects, the reception is often not so warm. Five years ago, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani gang-rape victim, defied tribal custom by taking her rapists to court. In the West, she won plaudits and prizes, but in Pakistan, her legal struggle against her accused rapists continues, and she has been widely denounced as having shamed her country abroad...
...couldn't find anyone who had actually seen the debate - not even among the political junkies who attend her meetings. Clinton's public demeanor at these rallies suggested that she had taken the punch and moved on, even if her campaign briefly made the mistake of playing the gender-victim card in a clunky webcast called The Politics of Pile-On, which showed all the boys repeatedly attacking her. "Look, I was not as artful or as well spoken as I could have or should have been, so I take responsibility for that," she told me. "But I think there...
...Indeed, hedge funds in their original form were designed to reduce investment volatility by profiting in bear markets as well as bull. But some wonder if the industry is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success. The number of funds has swelled from 6,297 in 2003 to nearly 10,000 today, raising concerns that an influx of young, inexperienced managers will find it increasingly difficult to post market-beating returns. Managers charge a lot for their expertise - typically a 2% annual management fee plus 20% of profits. But with funds multiplying in both diversity and complexity...
...order, in other words, is intended to protect the alleged victim. Arguably, however, the ban is having the opposite effect. A sensational story about a royal, however minor, would make headlines in some sections of the British press. But any editors considering publishing such a story would have to be certain that any allegations made would not leave their news organizations open to libel charges. Some reports suggest that attempts had been made to sell a story involving the aide and some of the allegations about the royal earlier this year, but none of the newspapers approached took the bait...
...Hussein's, describing the Italian's then client roster as "a veritable rogues' gallery of the most notorious criminals of the past few decades." Di Stefano told the Daily Mail newspaper that Strachan denies asking for money for the tape but was offered money for it by the alleged victim's office. According to the Daily Mail, the lawyer said the tape shows "an assistant to a member of the royal family boasting of how they received a sex act from this royal...