Word: victimness
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Last year, a newspaper deliveryman in Japan was brought to trial for killing a seven-year-old girl. After drowning his victim, he used her cell phone to take a digital photo of the body and to send the image to her mother with a text message saying, "I've got your daughter." In a country where truth is often weirder and more gruesome than fiction, few writers can compete with the stories on the evening news. The chilling exception is Miyuki Miyabe, one of Japan's most popular authors. In Crossfire, her third novel to be translated into English...
According to Pasquarello, the incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, when the victim was attacked by two male suspects, who stabbed him repeatedly on the station platform...
Annie K. Grayson ’09 said that she and two friends were walking down JFK Street past the Citizens Bank when they saw the victim lying face down on the ground in the bank—only moments after he had escaped the T station—surrounded by a flurry of police and firemen...
Grayson, who described the victim as a relatively nondescript middle-aged white male with brown hair who was wearing jeans, said that despite his wound, he was still moving and responsive to police...
...seen this movie a dozen times. In Firewall, of course, it's 2006, and it is not cumbersome old cash the bad guys are looking for. They want electronic transfers. This means that their banker-victim is not a middle manager but Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford), the top executive who installed and maintains the institution's impenetrable security system. It also means that there's a whole lot of not very cinematic hacking--lots of numbers whizzing across computer screens--allowing our minds to wander into realms a well-crafted suspense movie would never let them explore...