Word: victimness
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...couldn't stop looking at your cover picture. I didn't dwell on the disturbing gauze mask the bombing victim was holding to her face, but I was struck by the astonishing compassion of the man helping her. For every stone-cold killer, there is an equal and opposite force for good...
...core of what Hiroshima, 60 years on, represents. Sunao Tsuboi, at 80, knows that better than most. Four or five years after the end of the war, he fell in love with a woman whose parents refused to let her marry him because he was a victim of the A-bomb and who knew how long he would live? In despair, the lovers tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills but failed. Eventually they got married, once it became apparent to her parents that he wasn't going to die young. They had three children and seven grandchildren...
...role-is still frequently criticized. To some, Hiroshima's adoption of peace as its mantra is seen as an example of the nation's unwillingness to come to grips with its history. Critics say it has allowed the aggressor in World War II to pose as the victim. That is less a problem with the U.S. than it is with Japan's neighbors, particularly China and South Korea. Relations with both are at a perilously low point and could conceivably get worse; some Japanese officials have said that a nuclear North Korea and an expanding Chinese military means Japan...
...heads, considered as the living presence of powerful ancestors, could have been used for magical purposes, in warfare in particular,'' says Garnier. When a warrior had taken a head he would now be "a respected man, able to cover his body in black paint, a sign of homicide." The victim's head was boiled in a special pot to release the flesh and tendons. Then, after it had been appropriately adorned, it would be displayed alongside the heads of ancestors. Head-hunting is no longer practiced - it was firmly discouraged by the first Christian missionaries - so the remaining skulls have...
...victim called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), who responded within two minutes, according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. However, the assailant escaped before police arrived at the scene...