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...Reid in his ink-dot hometown of Searchlight, Nev. (pop. 738). Despite fears of unrest and a crowd of several thousand angry activists, the Searchlight event turned out to be a tame affair, mostly vague speeches about freedom and the evils of Washington. But the rhetoric was at times deviant and downright ugly: placards and T-shirts reading "Send Obuma [sic] back to Kenya" and "Pelosi is the White House's new Monica" were visible during Palin's brief speech, and she made no effort to censure their owners. "We're not going to sit down and shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Her Party Now | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Though Franks said he had not heard of the industry, he said that a society that allows such industries to thrive would only “increase the impulse” for “more deviant material...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Groups Celebrate White Ribbon Against Pornography Week | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...discussion, entitled “Deviant Bodies,” panelists showcased their expertise in biological differences between sexes, health policy, and alternative birth methods, touching upon topics that ranged from the pressures women often feel to give birth in a hospital to the current controversy over mammogram coverage...

Author: By SOFIE C. BROOKS, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women Discuss Female Health Issues | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...year-old." But it wasn't just her age that made it unlawful. It was the fact that the sex was unwanted, that she repeatedly said no throughout the assault, that she had been drugged. Polanski isn't being hounded for behavior--like homosexuality--once thought to be deviant but now generally accepted as mainstream. In 2009, just as in the 1970s, it is considered a bad thing to rape a child and run from the law. And so will it be 30 years from now and 60 years from now. Even in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...between warring factions in Burundi in 2005, has a blunter style. As Zuma prepared to depart for Zimbabwe last month, his aide (and secretary-general of his party, the African National Congress) Gwede Mantashe said Zuma "will be more vocal in terms of what we see as deviant behavior," adding all sides in Zimbabwe must understand they did not have the "luxury of adolescent behavior. You must be more mature. You must engage." (See pictures of South Africa, Fifteen Years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe: Still Slow in Coming | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

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