Word: victimness
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...alleged victim, known only as "A", has publicly voiced her wrath. After Mazuz announced the plea bargain, A told a press conference that the Attorney General had "cast her away like a grain of dust." The former presidential staffer detailed how Katsav allegedly advanced from making harassing phone calls - she claimed he demanded that she wear a skirt with no underwear to work - to locking her in the presidential office, pinning her against the desk and raping her. Katsav has denied A's allegations. Justice Ministry staffers were stunned by A's performance. "She said things in her press conference...
...Cambridge Police Department did not respond to requests for comment. The status of both the victim and the suspect is unknown...
...against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed," he said in a speech to the conservative Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960, "in other years it has been--and may someday be again--a Jew or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist ... Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow...
Maybe there will come a day, as yet far off, when our skills and science overmaster chaos and the last surprise flashover consumes its last unlucky victim. Until then, we will have need for those willing to place themselves in the gap between knowledge and peril: the firefighter at the blaze, the police officer in pursuit, the soldier approaching an ambush, the fisherman nearing a gale. Though their perception may prove imperfect, their courage is never obsolete...
...least not the fruit we desperately want, which is the victim's safe return. Ironically, Danny's murderers were eventually found, tried and punished; although we can take muted pleasure in that fact, it does not really satisfy us. We can, as well, admire his widow carrying on, building a new life, which includes creation of a foundation that seeks to protect endangered journalists everywhere (some 250 of them have lost their lives in action since Pearl's death). But again that cannot quite compensate us for our disappointment in this earnest, well-made, consistently interesting chronicle of death...