An advance team of Thai government officials selected a group of polite and articulate flood victims to meet with Mrs. Clinton, said Sompot Prateepkaew, a 35-year-old volunteer who helps manage the evacuation center, which is now home to 1,400 people.
Relatives and friends at the hearing read statements citing his history of community service, while victims articulated their loss and fear.
In "The Devil Finds Work," a book-length essay of film criticism, Baldwin wrote, "The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he, or she, has become a threat".
"How do you come up with a crime that literally none of the victims can articulate without sounding like they're nuts?
But, in a stylistic twist that is rare for this genre, the focus of the suspense remains locked on his victims, smart, articulate women who reveal their escalating fears in intimate first-person narratives that are insightful and also sad, because the lessons learned come too late.
The Four Weddings and a Funeral star is an unlikely expert on press regulation, but the actor has become an unofficial spokesman for hacking victims, and an articulate critic of the tabloid press in general and the News of the World in particular.
"Often victims don't know how to articulate what happened to them, they aren't clear what the offence is if there is one," he said.
The characters at the story's heart, three victims of a sexual predator, are improbably attractive, articulate and courageous.
Victims often lack the ability to realize and articulate that they have been wronged, and the laws are not always clear cut.
