Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...enforcement officials had an explanation: they feared a repeat of the media circus that surrounded the celebrated Stuart murder case, when police scoured the city for a black assailant only to learn that the real killer was the victim's white husband. Some community leaders insisted that if Harbour had been white and middle class instead of a poor black crack addict, the case would have been widely publicized. What they failed to note was that this crime was probably not about race but about gender. Before their rampage, the suspects, who were black and Hispanic, allegedly declared that they...
...ointment over the wounded area with a tongue depressor and keep the skin completely covered until it heals. So far, the treatment has been used on 50,000 burn patients in China and on several hundred elsewhere. Xu and colleagues traveled to Thailand last month to help treat victims of a gas explosion in Bangkok. In the U.S. the doctor has won converts at the New Jersey-based National Burn Victim Foundation. Xu, 32, who comes from a family of herbal-medicine specialists, will not reveal the ointment's formula until he receives a patent, saying only that it contains...
...minutes between classes, BGLSA clashed cymbals once every 30 seconds, each clash representing another AIDS victim...
...favorable ruling provided only momentary respite. Six of the women found themselves suspended from their jobs as professors at King Saud University in Riyadh after organized bands of students staged angry protests. "Not one of my students understood what I was trying to accomplish," said a stunned victim. Leaflets passed out at mosques during Friday prayers accused the women of undermining Saudi morality and, worst of all, showing signs of "American secularism." The women's names, phone numbers and addresses were printed and distributed. Menacing telephone calls followed. Says a friend of one of the women: "They are afraid that...
...purest form . . . power and domination for its own sake," to be expanded without limit. If Saddam is allowed to keep part of Kuwait -- and make no mistake, that is what those advocating a "diplomatic solution" are hinting at -- he will be back to take a bite out of another victim. Not right away, maybe, but after the U.S. troops have left Saudi Arabia and all has returned to a delusive quiet. If he meets resistance, he will use chemical, bacteriological and, one day, nuclear weapons. Millions...