Word: victimness
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There is none--but one may soon be needed. That's because India, which virtually invented offshore outsourcing, is becoming a victim of its own success. Such companies as Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) grew into billion-dollar behemoths by tapping armies of quick-coding, English-speaking, low-wage techies to do the software programming and back-office tasks that U.S. companies used to perform in-house. But Indian salaries are rising--the median annual wage for a software engineer jumped 11%, from $6,313 in 2004 to $7,010 in 2005, according to India's National Association...
...bent on proving he didn't do it. Loughlin is equally convinced he got the right guy, but his eyesight is failing from degenerative tunnel vision, and the case has taken a bizarre twist: fresh traces of the dead woman's blood have turned up under a new victim's nails. Blauner, winner of the 1992 Edgar for Best First Novel, has written a taut psychological thriller with a pair of conflicted but compelling antagonists and a surprise ending you'll never see coming...
...hands and sails out a window, where it lands on a passerby who may be the absent father and may be dead as a result of the accident. Neither his identity nor his fate can at first be fully determined, for by the time the ambulance arrives, the victim has disappeared. In any case, the family is less concerned with his possible demise than it is with the question of whether their father has been cheating on their mother. Off into the night they bucket, seeking truth, but in the end finding some sort of compassion for all concerned...
Despite their victim routine, conservatives are making quick advances on even the most liberal campuses--and YAF's millions are no small reason. Take Ithaca College. When foundation officials described it to me, it sounded like a suffocating gulag. I was told that a Bay Buchanan speech had been reported to the college's Orwellian-sounding bias-related-incidents committee and that professors in the politics department openly sniggered at Republican kids in class...
...argument, that irony is more accessible than a thousand position papers. She knows that saying what no one else would dare to say will get her attention. It works every time, as it did this week when Coulter attacked one of America's most hallowed, untouchable figures - the 9/11 victim...