Word: victimization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) received a call about a third robbery at 8:19 p.m. from a third victim, a female undergraduate...
...after all, Carroll, the eldest cop in the car, who was the first to approach Diallo, the first to falsely identify the victim's wallet as a gun, and, arguably, the force that precipitated the barrage of bullets that killed Diallo. A tragic mistake was made, and the political storm surrounding this trial virtually guarantees that someone will have to shoulder the penalty. Sobbing on the stand Monday, Carroll was the embodiment of anguish - and, the prosecution may contend, of the bulk of the guilt...
...depending heavily on advice and consultation from the technical people at the victim companies in this case," says TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon. "Nobody knows these systems and their weaknesses better than the people who design and maintain them." After wrangling with top e-commerce sites over how to best guard against security breaches, the Clinton administration adopted the view that too much regulation and oversight would inhibit dynamism in a sector that's fueled the U.S. economy's record growth. What's more, firms that do business on the Web, particularly financial institutions, are reluctant to divulge...
Then on the Crimson's next possession, Harvard fell victim to a questionable charging call as Kate Ides took a pass on the blocks, turned around for a shot and ran into a Penn defender...
...years ago, Lyle (Jeff Bridges) and Vinnie (Nick Nolte) pulled a complicated race-track scam. It made the former rich, the latter guilt-ridden. Unaware of the statute of limitations, Vinnie now belatedly launches into a more muddled plan of blackmail and retribution, requiring the complicity of the chief victim of the original crime (Albert Finney), who has made slightly pretentious peace with the past. Derived from a not-very-successful Sam Shepard play, this is a shaggy, overstuffed film. But the actors (including Sharon Stone as Lyle's drunken wife and Catherine Keener as a wise innocent...