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Attributing its facts to a report by the country's High Audit Commission, the paper said that 43,000 state officials had been found to have abused their positions for illegal financial gain.
She couldn't possibly: When her show featured victims of sexual abuse, Oprah revealed that she'd been abused, too.
Orphans with tics and dwarfs without lips or teeth ( Jack Maggs and The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith ), 10-year-old parricides and sexually abused teen-agers ( Illywhacker and The Tax Inspector )--Carey documents their stories in exhaustive, loving detail.
Rosenbaum himself approached Lanzmann, was abused over minor procedural matters, and was told that the investigation of the Holocaust had become superfluous because "it has been done.
Nothing distresses Johnson, a distinguished journalist, more than the behavior of the liberal American news media, which are described as having abused enormous power in recent years.