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...alleged victim, known only as "A", has publicly voiced her wrath. After Mazuz announced the plea bargain, A told a press conference that the Attorney General had "cast her away like a grain of dust." The former presidential staffer detailed how Katsav allegedly advanced from making harassing phone calls - she claimed he demanded that she wear a skirt with no underwear to work - to locking her in the presidential office, pinning her against the desk and raping her. Katsav has denied A's allegations. Justice Ministry staffers were stunned by A's performance. "She said things in her press conference...
...almost goes without saying that Dengler's story would attract (and obsess) Werner Herzog, a director drawn to portrayals of men driven to extreme behavior in extreme situations. Herzog's features - Aguirre the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo - and his conditions - notably the great Grizzly Man- provide ample and thrilling testimony to the uniqueness of his enterprise. He is willing to go places no other filmmaker goes and he simply has no competitors when it comes to strenuous risk-taking. About a decade ago he made a hypnotic documentary about Dengler's exploits, entitled Little Dieter Needs...
...vilified by all parts of the political spectrum, including fellow Cabinet members, for appearing to suggest that the atomic bombings could be viewed as historically justifiable, and not solely, as Japanese are taught, as an unforgivable war crime. Kyuma had touched the third rail of Japanese politics, incurring the wrath of the influential A-bomb victims' groups. Though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe briefly supported his handpicked defense chief, by July 3 it was clear Kyuma had to go. "I told Prime Minister Abe I would take responsibility and resign," Kyuma said to reporters Tuesday afternoon. "I truly apologize for having...
...political elite (Aliyev's father was the former Health Minister). Aliyev slowly rose in the government until the fall of 2001, when his alleged collusion with top officials against Nazarbayev lead to a political crisis. Some Kazakh political sources say that only Dariga's intervention saved Aliyev from the wrath of an enraged Nazarbayev, who then exiled Aliyev to Vienna as ambassador. Aliyev was able to return only in July 2005, when an appeased Nazarbayev promoted him to First Deputy Foreign Minister, a post he would hold concurrently with the ambassadorship to Austria...
...boats and men, the people here have long accepted a cruel bargain: the ocean gives fishermen their livelihood but it also owns a claim - redeemable at any time - on their lives. Forced to be stoic, they came to believe that no man could be blamed for the sea's wrath...