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...close. The research suggests that even as they get more electronically immodest, they are delaying actual sex, having fewer partners and generally behaving more responsibly than many of their parents did. By all means, come down hard on the kid who uses a phone to cheat or bully or harass or cause harm. But when it comes to baring all, remind them that even if they escape the law they'll never erase the trail, when they decide to apply for college or a job or run for President: indiscretion lives forever, their naked teenage ghost in cyberspace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Thoughts About Kids and Cell Phones | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...renew the broadcasting license for Venezuela’s second largest TV station, which had voiced opposition to Chávez’s policies and may have endorsed a coup against Chávez in April 2002. There are also reports of Chávez sending gangs to harass journalists critical of his administration and laws that require all media outlets to broadcast his speeches in full...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Termination | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...finally spontaneously emanates from the grille couches. During a ball. And the Sox are still losing 3-0. Satisfied with the cheering, the visitors allow the students to return to their multitasking. But still curious about why the game is not Harvardian’s first priority, the interviewers harass several students, who reluctantly look up from their MacBooks long enough to reply sheepishly, “I’m writing a paper for school...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Take Me Out To...Japan? | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...wife Rosario Murillo, who has long been accused by feminists of being a silent accomplice in her daughter's alleged abuse, are fighting back with a Sandinista inquisition. Ortega has used all his tentacles - Sandinista media outlets, government ministries and fanatical party structures - to investigate, slander and harass Nicaragua's feminist movement, which is being informally accused of everything from money laundering and conspiring with the CIA, to "illegally" promoting abortion, pornography and "assassinating children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Ortega vs. the Feminists | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...Local residents had complained of their deteriorating quality of life as reports poured in of mounting theft, vandalism and public drunkenness by gangs of petty criminals known as "hoodies" because of their preference for hooded sweatshirts. The local constabulary came up with an unlikely solution: "We basically decided to harass them," Fergus Caulfield of Essex Police says of the hoodies. Operation Leopard involves police officers targeting known offenders, openly filming them, stopping them repeatedly on the street, and hounding them at their homes. The goal, according to the operation's manual, is to make offenders feel the same sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Afraid of the Bad-Boy Cops? | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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