Word: victimization
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...accident is plausible: it involves a hair dryer, a bathtub and an electric shock. The results are improbable: the victim, Gibson's Nick Marshall, an adman confronting a career crisis, is given a magical ability to listen in on womens' thoughts. As comic premises go these days, it is acceptable. One settles back to enjoy the advantages, personal and professional, that accrue to Nick as a result of his unexpected gift. There's some good humor in the truths that he overhears, maybe even some sympathetic insights into the inner life of a sex he has exploited...
...Listed on the front of the card are factors that officers should consider in identifying possible hate crimes, such as whether neighborhood tensions exist or whether the victim is one of a few people of a particular group in the area...
...Crimson defense does make the same errors against the Big Green, it could fall victim to a Dartmouth team that is coming off its best effort of the season...
...would establish a spirit that would perpetually replenish the SAC's leadership with charismatic and visionary students. Who better to identify the undergraduates best fit to take the reins of an organization than those who had braved the demands of the positions themselves? Unfortunately, this selection process, too, fell victim to the vices of Harvard students; especially in recent years, the SAC had degenerated into a nasty spiral of networking and back-scratching that provoked IOP Director Sen. David H. Pryor to dissolve the committee last month...
...enforcement officers will undermine his claims to martyrdom - at least in the court of Russian public opinion. But then the converse may also be true: If Spain's courts fail to find merit in the case brought by Russia, it may actually help Gusinsky paint himself as the victim of political machinations...