Word: victimness
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...Janabi and the killing of her family members by U.S. soldiers, displayed insensitivity and poor judgment. The article began with a discussion of whether Abeer was beautiful. The answer, we learn, is no: she was merely "ordinary." Does it matter? Would the crime be somehow more understandable if the victim had been pretty? The reason the soldier selected her is unknown. Time's decision to evaluate Abeer's physical attractiveness and speculate on what made her "tantalizing" was both poor journalism and an insult to the young girl who died a violent and tragic death. Margaret Emery Washington...
...Uganda has hinted it will offer amnesty to Kony and other rebel leaders as a bargaining chip - just as it has allowed surrendering fighters to return home freely in the past. But cleaning up after the gruesome conflict will be difficult. The line between victim and attacker has been badly blurred: Most of the LRA fighting forces were once abductees themselves, children like Ojok Bosco, who were then forced to visit terror on their own families and villages...
Fourteen years after Princess Diana's good friend James Gilbey committed the lèse majesté of referring to Her Royal Highness as "Squidgy" in a bugged phone conversation, the British royal family has again fallen victim to a wiretapping scandal. Last week, London's Metropolitan Police [an error occurred while processing this directive] arrested journalist Clive Goodman, chief royal correspondent at Britain's largest Sunday tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW), for allegedly obtaining private information by hacking into mobile-phone voice-mail messages of top aides of Prince Charles. The Scoop: Why the arrest? According...
...July. Brainard would not comment about whether the eight maps identified as Harvard’s were proven to belong to the University at Monday’s meeting.The next step for Harvard, other institutions, and dealers affected by Smiley’s thefts is to prepare victim impact statements that will give them the opportunity to explain to the court what impact Smiley’s crime has had on them.Such statements are a way for victims to describe how they’ve been affected by a crime. The judge in a case can use that information...
...discuss intelligence-gathering efforts and Carroll herself is fearful of any retribution possibly aimed at her family in the U.S. or her colleagues in Baghdad. But when she was released into Baghdad's Green Zone on March 30, Cook says, "she told what she could remember as a victim - not as a journalist - to prevent others from having to go through the same thing." He adds: "I wasn't there for the debrief, but I do know Jill well enough to know she?s got a fantastic memory for detail...