Word: victimness
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...these works as some of his most meaningful, and has donated them to the National Museum in Bogotá. Those paintings also draw criticism, however. "Most people said it was glorifying violence," he says. In 1995, Colombia's murky mixture of politics and gangsterism claimed a new victim: Botero's relationship with his eldest son, Fernando Botero Zea, a Harvard-educated politician who was Colombia's Defense Minister and a possible presidential contender. He was arrested on charges of accepting campaign funds for President Ernesto Samper from druglords and later convicted, spending nearly three years in jail. Devastated, Botero visited...
...just praying the Governor will help me," Hargrave-Thomas says. But that is no easy decision. Hargrave-Thomas has a broad range of supporters--from Democratic Senator Carl Levin to Judge Gadola, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has publicly said she "very likely is innocent." But the victim's family opposes setting her free, and if Granholm did so, she would risk being labeled soft on crime. G.O.P. state chairman Saul Anuzis last week issued a statement warning the Governor not "to release a convicted murderer due to political pressure." --By James Carney
...population, become a frequent motif in The Human Dilemma. One scene has Concrete, stuck in a steamy gridlock, leaping to the rescue of someone caught in a dangerous road rage incident. But, in the first of several missed chances at heroism during the series, he can't save the victim...
Just a month after everyone’s favorite booze salesman was held up at gunpoint, Cheng-San Chen—the owner of Louie’s Superette near Mather House—fell victim to the heightened security around his store. An undercover Cambridge Police Department officer, suspicious about four people who exited the store carrying alcohol, discovered that the students were underage. Chen avoided jail time and had his liquor license suspended for 12 days at the end of June 2004. Only a week after that Cambridge Licensing Commission decision, Chen was again robbed at gunpoint. Chen...
That April, a three-person review panel concluded that Skocpol had been a victim of sexual discrimination—but as her application for tenure was being reviewed, then-University President Derek C. Bok intervened on the grounds that he needed as much as three years to appraise Skocpol’s scholarly work and make a final decision himself. Four years later, during which time she served as a full professor at the University of Chicago, Bok granted Skocpol tenure...