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...idiot for not hanging up at the start. Nor am I comforted by the fact that my report is one of dozens made to HUPD over the past six years, including at least one last week. There’s a reason people say victim blaming is unproductive—no one blames the victim more than the victim herself...
...Winfrey spoke out about her childhood sexual abuse, she became a goddess in a society convinced that it's good to talk. While thousands of courageous Muslims regularly speak out on taboo subjects, the reception is often not so warm. Five years ago, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani gang-rape victim, defied tribal custom by taking her rapists to court. In the West, she won plaudits and prizes, but in Pakistan the verdict was subsequently overturned and she was widely denounced as having shamed her country abroad. Of course it was bad, what those men did to her, I remember...
...unlikely to go down well with committee chairman Henry Waxman, who has emerged as the company's leading congressional critic. On Monday, Waxman's staff released a blistering assessment of the company and its performance, alleging that Blackwater employees had shot innocent Iraqis and had paid off one victim's family to appease State Department officials who had wanted to put the "unfortunate matter" behind them. The 15-page report said the firm's staff has been involved in at least 195 shooting incidents since 2005, firing the first shot more than 80% of the time. It added that, over...
...inappropriate phone calls in 2004. Catalano cautioned against assuming that the “serial whisperer” has returned, noting that it is difficult to identify the caller without a caller ID or a successful trace. Currier House resident Melissa M. Garcia ’09, another victim of the calls, said that she heard a nearby room phone ring after hanging up with the inappropriate caller. The caller told Garcia that he had just dialed random numbers looking for someone to talk to. “It was his voice that really freaked...
Almost a year later, the charges have been reduced to second-degree aggravated battery, still unheard of for a fist-fight where the victim walked out of the hospital hours later. The 16-year-old boys, all without prior criminal records, were tried as adults in front of an all-white judge and jury. Under normal circumstances, the charges and sentence seem unnecessarily harsh. Set against the background of events in Jena, they raise the specter of racism...