Word: victimness
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...commercial real estate market seems headed for trouble, the next potential victim of the speculative frenzy that has already devastated the residential housing market. That prospect apparently hasn't scared investors. Shares of real estate investment trusts (REITs, which buy and manage buildings and mortgages) have been on a tear for the past seven months, almost doubling in value on average. REITs now trade at a double-digit premium to the value of their underlying properties...
Iannacone said he first felt symptoms almost instantly after sipping a cup of coffee at 3 p.m. with graduate student and fellow victim Lidia Bosurgi. He said he noticed a metallic taste and then felt a drop in blood pressure and an increase in pulse. Upon learning that four others had reported similar symptoms, he said he was taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in an ambulance...
Quotes By: "I am not a drug dealer, I never was and I never will be. I am a victim of vicious politics." - Denying his involvement in Afghanistan's $4 billion a year drug trade (New York Times...
...arrivals in their Khartoum neighborhood, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of an Egyptian Islamist movement who would become al-Qaeda's second-in-command. When members of another extremist group raped one of Omar's male friends, al-Zawahiri took justice into his own hands - by executing the victim...
This lack of contrition has led armchair psychologists, and not a few former colleagues, to label Blagojevich a megalomaniac, a textbook narcissist, a poster boy for America's coarse and craven political culture. Blagojevich calls himself a victim - with one caveat. "If I'm lying to you," he says, "then I'm a sociopath...