Word: victimness
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...nothing to be done, so I trudged back to my seat, resuming my battle with the clock, a war I had already waged for two and a half hours. Next to me, a girl sighed in defeat, shaking her head as she stood up and walked away. Yet another victim of the Harvard Blood Drive, I thought to myself, as I tapped my fingers and stared at the seconds-hand...
...Rent” seems to have chosen poverty. Nor does the film completely ignore the homeless. “Rent” was clearly made by people with real compassion for the city’s poor. The problem is that the role of the victim in this story is filled by characters who seem like they could be doing better. By casting nerdy Jewish filmmakers and talented musicians as the proletariat of New York City, “Rent” trivializes real problems. Poverty, for most Americans, is not something that could be escaped...
...Harvard senior filed a report with the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) last week that said she was the victim of a racially motivated verbal attack. The report said the attack was directed at her because of her Muslim background, and the incident has sparked concern among Muslim students and other student organizations on campus. Huma Farid ’06 said that as she was walking on Quincy Street past Lamont Library at around 6 p.m. last Monday, she was speaking with her father on her cell phone when she heard screaming from a group of women across the street...
Tricky business, playing the wife who is cheated on by a movie's hero. If you go too shrill and harpyish, you give the audience a chance to excuse him. If you play the victim, you give the audience a chance to hate him. Either way, it takes away from the tragedy...
...legal battle over online file sharing claimed a new victim this week when i2hub, an application that allowed high speed, peer-to-peer uploading and downloading of files over the intercollegiate network Internet2, shut down on Monday. The i2hub website contained no details about the closure of the service, displaying only a blank page with a graphic containing the words “Remember i2hub,” accompanied by a caption reading “R.I.P.” and the dates of i2hub’s launch and demise...