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The Guardian        p. 38        15.2.2007

The Phantom

Paul Ryan (daily art), Graham Nolan (sunday art) & Tony DePaul (scripts)

3.4.2005
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/phantom/about.htm

Raped policeman:

'I never thought [ verbe ]

I would [ modal > ici valeur prétérit de will ] be a victim'

A detective investigating sexual assaults was devastated when he himself was raped.
But he grew even more angry when police colleagues insisted on investigating the crime.
Here he tells his tale anonymously

Amelia Hill
Guardian.co.uk
Monday 4 April 2011 20.30 BST
This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 20.30 BST on Monday 4 April 2011.
A version appeared on p12 of the G2 section of the Guardian on Tuesday 5 April 2011.
It was last modified at 00.05 BST on Tuesday 5 April 2011.

I've been a police officer for two decades and a detective, specialising in serious crime and sexual offences, for 15 years. Never once in all the time I've investigated these horrific crimes has it occurred to me that one day I would be a victim; that I would be raped – and that I would refuse to help the police investigate.

But a couple of weeks ago, I made a series of choices that led to me, a heterosexual man, waking up in a man's bed, trapped underneath him. Being raped. I'm still struggling to come to terms with how, despite my decades of professional experience, I made the choices that led to me being raped. At no point the evening before had I felt at risk. At no point did I think I was making a bad decision.

I also never anticipated using the service the police provide to rape victims. I've always been the one asking the questions. To be on the other side of the table has been a shock – if I investigated a sexual crime now, there are things I would do differently.

It's hard to accept that a couple of weeks ago everything was normal. Now everything's wrong. I had gone out with friends for a Saturday brunch. We were a small group of settled, sorted, middle-aged men, some single, some in relationships, but none of us looking to do anything other than spend some quiet leisure time together. We had a couple of beers, shared a bottle of wine over the meal, then sat around in the pub chatting and reading the papers.

    Raped policeman: 'I never thought I would be a victim', G, 4.4.2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/apr/04/raped-policeman-colleagues-investigation


 

Police unable to stop paedophile living near his schoolgirl victim

The family of a schoolgirl claim that they have been forced out of their home

after a paedophile who was jailed for sexually assaulting the child

moved back into their street after being released.

Relatives of the 10-year-old girl yesterday said they had to move

because she was terrified that she might be attacked again.

    Abuser 'forced family to flee home' , first §§, G, 10.6.2005,
    http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1503389,00.html

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co. on Friday said it would buy Gillette Co.

in a deal worth about $55.8 billion, uniting two of the world's largest makers of household goods

ranging from Pampers diapers to Duracell batteries.

    P&G to Buy Gillette for $55.8 Billion, R, Fri Jan 28, 2005 07:41 PM ET, http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=J5CDRDEOAMPZKCRBAEZSFEY?type=businessNews&storyID=7472288

Ce texte comprend deux concordances, l'une au présent, l'autre au prétérit :

Saddam Hussein, Taha Yassin Ramadan and Tariq Aziz are lounging on the balcony of one of Saddam's palaces when a flock of geese flies over. "Ramadan, shoot the geese," Saddam says. The vice president lifts his AK-47 and empties a clip into the sky, but doesn't hit a single goose. "You try, Tariq," Saddam says. The deputy prime minister fires and misses as well. "Damn, I have to do everything around here," Saddam says. He fires five rounds in the air. None of the birds fall. There's an awkward silence. Then Tariq Aziz points at the receding flock and says, "My God, would you look at that! Dead birds flying!"

    Telling a joke like that could get you maimed, tortured and even killed in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The most common penalty was tongue amputation. Iraquis know the story of Lt. Gen. Omar al-Hazzaa, one of Saddam's top officers. During a backgammon game with friends in 1984, the subject of Saddam's mother came up. Al-Hazzaa joked, "Who is she, anyway?" Saddam and his four brothers all had different mothers. Everyone laughed, but one of them informed on him. According to accounts from family survivors who later fled Iraq, first al-Hazzaa's tongue was cut out, then his sons had their tongues cut out while their wives were forced to watch. Then his male family members were killed in front of him, and his wife and daughters turned out of their home. Finally he was executed.

    Iraq: Killer Jokes, pp.4-5, N, 19.5.2003.

The Guardian        p. 5        17.1.2005

Rex Morgan        Woody Wilson and Graham Nolan

Created in 1948 by Nicholas P. Dallis

28.10.2004
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/rmorgan/about.htm

From The Times Archives > On This Day - May 2, 1956

The Times joined the general acclaim

as huge throngs assembled for the opening of the Great Exhibition in London

THE struggles of great nations in battle, the levies of whole races, never called forth such an array as thronged the streets of London on the 1st of May.

If a man ventured into the Strand or Holborn at 8 o’clock, with the intent to see the show, he felt half inclined to turn back with the idea that it would be useless to go where “all the world” would be before him.

Down the cross streets — from Lincoln’s-inn-fields, Camden-town, Kensington, Bayswater, Kennington, Islington, the City, Southwark, from the most remote suburb, by train, omnibus, cab, horse and foot, teemed the crowds. The tramp of men, with wives and daughters on their arms, resounded from the pavement as they all trudged westwards with contented and happy faces. Those honest English workmen, in their round fustian jackets and glazed caps, felt they had a right to take part in the honours of the day, and to have an honest pride in the result of their own and their brethren’s labours, and they walked contentedly and happily, amid prancing horses and gaudy liveries.

Strange-looking foreigners passed along in the stream without the note and comment in which we are to wont to indulge at any deviation in costume or appearance from the mode prescribed at the time by popular taste. There was a dearth of Turks and turbans, but the supply of beard, imperial, sallow faces, and eccentric head-gear was liberal, though not unlimited.

    From The Times Archives > On This Day - May 2, 1956, The Times, 2.5.2005.

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