Word: victimness
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...real victim in George Tiller murder turns...
...nature has not changed. Trees will continue to grow in the bomb craters. Children will be born of the tribes targeted for extinction. And on Thursday, Wiesel, a Jewish victim of a German extermination campaign, stood at the gate of the camp that took his father's life, next to the current leader of the nation that once tried to exterminate his people. After speaking, he kissed German Chancellor Angela Merkel on both cheeks...
...latest episode of this public soap opera came as Europeans voted in parliamentary elections. Some pundits predict that all the hot gossip will hurt Berlusconi, especially among Catholic voters, while others say voters might see him as a victim of rumor-mongering. But there is another, perhaps more far-reaching possibility that could mark the definitive victory of Berlusconi, who has made billions bringing private, sometimes low-brow television to Italy. Italians are growing increasingly immune to it all, resigned to the mingling of serious state affairs with an appetite for gossip. But still they - like us - can't stop...
When Denise Cosby saw reports of a shooting on the Harvard campus headlining the evening news one Monday last month, she had no idea the victim was her son.It was only when one of his friends phoned her from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center that she realized Justin Cosby was not in the next room.Cosby, who suffered a bullet wound to the abdomen after a shooting in Kirkland House’s J-entryway, was declared to be in stable condition around 7 p.m. He died just eight hours later, with his mother at his side...
...mail. "We respect his freedom of expression.") British politicians regularly have things thrown at them by protesting members of the public - in 2001, someone threw an egg at then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who famously threw a punch back, and more recently, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson was the victim of a green-custard attack by an environmentalist. But cases like those don't usually end up in court. (See the top 10 awkward moments...