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Victims

Do You Have To Accept Being A Victim?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Victims, The Late Show, Inspiration, W Mitchell, Mitchell, The Inner Life, Choice, Aspiration, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

Anyone who has ever worked with victims of various tragedies will know that there is a great deal of difference between what happened and how the person responds to what happened.

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Is Balloon Boy's Mom, Mayumi Heene, a Victim of Her Husband?

Disgrasian | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Victims, Richard Heene, Reality TV, Wife Swap, Hoaxes, Boy in Balloon, Balloon Boy, Richard and Mayumi Heene, Falcon Heene Balloon, Falcon Heene, Heene Family, Media, Mayumi Heene, Kid in Balloon, Family, Media News
Disgrasian

Mayumi and Richard have separate legal representation. In other words, if the Heenes are going to go down like their little Mylar balloon for this hoax, they're not going to go down together.

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The Murder of a Young Asian Woman You've Never Heard Of

Disgrasian | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Ryan Jenkins, Brian Randone, Victims, Reality TV, Felicia Lee, Raymond Clark III, Crime, Murder Victims, Media, Porn Star, Yale Murder, Crime Reporting, Jasmine Fiore, Annie Le Murder, Felicia Lee Murder, Crime Coverage, Reality TV Murder, Felicia-Lee-Murder, Annie Le, Brian Lee Randone, Internet-Porn-Star-Murder, Media News
Disgrasian

As much as the details of Felicia Lee's life and death would seem sensational enough for widespread media coverage, unlike Annie Le's murder, Lee's has largely failed to capture the public's imagination.

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A Beautiful Life

Deborah Calla | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Victims, Rape, Filmmaking, Incest, Survivors, Film, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Roman Polanski, Living News
Deborah Calla

I worry about people who are abused who are silent and surrounded by others who continue to blame them for their role as "victims" and perpetrate another painful form of abuse: the malice of ignorance.

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Most Americans Wish The 9/11 Families Peace Today. And Then There's Glenn Beck.

James Boyce | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Glenn Beck, September 11, Victims, Van Jones, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Fox News, 9/11 Families, Astrodome, Politics News
James Boyce

As emotional as 9/11 was for all of us, nothing compares to what families who lost a loved one experienced that day. A fact that is totally lost on Glenn Beck.

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No Excuses for Failure in Pakistan

Rob Asghar | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Victims, Muslims, Obama, Taliban, Pakistani-Americans, Obama Muslim, Pakistan, World News
Rob Asghar

A full 59% of Pakistanis see the United States as the biggest threat to their country.That's more than five times the number of citizens who believe that the Taliban pose the biggest threat.

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"Victims" of Infidelity?

Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Silda Spitzer, Marriage, Jenny Sanford, Elizabeth Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Press, Media, Infidelity, Deception, Journalism, Sex Scandal, Extramarital Affair, Victims, Mark Sanford, Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Politics News
Ruth Bettelheim

In the news articles and op-ed pieces about extramarital affairs, there is always a perpetrator and a victim. These are stories about Good and Evil, the righteous and the sinner.

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Zimbabwean Betty Makoni is my hero!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Cnn, Betty Makoni, Aids, Rape and Abuse, Zimbabwe, Victims, Anger, Rape, Surivivors, Population of Women, Domestic Violence, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, San Francisco-California, World News
Michealene Cristini Risley

Betty and I spoke the same language; a language of survivors who turned their personal stories into something more collective to change the world.

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Justice Is Essential for True Forgiveness

Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Victims, Forgiving, Rita Arditti, Forgiveness, Living News
Anne Dilenschneider

Accountability is the cornerstone of justice. And justice is essential for true forgiveness.

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