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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Victorian colonial laws, not conservative Chinese attitudes, which first criminalized homosexuality. In 1901 British colonial laws threatened homosexuals with life imprisonment for anal intercourse and up to two years imprisonment for any so-called indecent acts involving two men, even if the acts occurred in the privacy of their home. In 1980, after an inspector of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force committed suicide as a group of officers were about to arrest him on suspicion of having engaged in homosexual activities, a debate sparked on legalizing homosexuality. Finally in 1991, after more than a decade of discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gay-Pride Revolution in Hong Kong | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

...phone drive during the South Carolina primary that targeted Hillary Clinton. The recorded message included claims that Clinton had paid someone to kill an opponent's cat: "Hillary thinks cats are expendable. Can you trust her?" In May, the Minnesota Family Council recorded messages that used the words "anal and oral sex" in an effort to defeat a bill for sex education in school; ironically, the organization received complaints from parents whose children had answered such calls. In March, one Ohio man posted a video on YouTube pleading with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to stop calling his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robo-Calls | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...eating disorders as a result of calorie cards? Really? The causes of eating disorders run a lot deeper than a bunch of little papers. Maybe if we attempted to abandon the anal retentive behavior that characterizes us as Harvardians to the outside world, we could effectively steer away from eating disorders...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Death of Calorie Cards: Hate it | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...people sometimes call you anal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Own Election Exit Poll | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...person votes a month before the election. To my shock, none of them told me they were voting early "to avoid old people." Equally surprising, no one found that question to be strange. The voters were, however, dubious about my professionalism when I asked whether "people sometimes call them anal"--though 36% said yes. Also, 36% had already done some Christmas shopping and their taxes, 44% applied early admission to college, and one-third had stamps on them. Two even said they don't carry stamps because they pay all their bills online. One woman was saving her I VOTED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Own Election Exit Poll | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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