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CRIMES OF PASSION Rough sex for many species can range from brutal love bites to lethal lust. Male dung flies, mountain sheep and some frogs, in their zeal to procreate, will swarm, harass and harm females, sometimes fatally. For Hawaiian monk seals, where males outnumber females 3 to 1, mating violence is so serious that biologists are worried that the species may be endangered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Animal Attraction | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...corruption and an arbitrary legal system—isn’t exactly the stuff of Milton Friedman and Ec 10. As China’s entrepreneurial middle class grows, Solidarity-type labor movements emerge, and Christianity increasingly takes root, we can expect the regime to bully, harass, torture and murder to resist political reform. If the past is indicative, it will do virtually anything to maintain its dictatorial rule over one-sixth of the earth’s population...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Our China Chimera | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...death, along with Guru and Afzal. But last week Geelani, 41, was set free by a New Delhi appeals court, which said the evidence did "not even remotely" point toward his guilt. Human-rights activists were unsurprised, saying the government has used draconian anti-terrorism laws to harass Muslims and other minorities for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reverse Charge | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...Philippines, a task that is further complicated by the predominantly Catholic country's longstanding warfare against two other terrorist groups: Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic gang of kidnappers, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a homegrown Muslim separatist organization in Mindanao with some 12,500 members. While attempting to harass Abu Sayyaf into extinction, Arroyo has also been trying to end years of bloodshed by negotiating a peace treaty with the MILF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elevated Threat | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...times, the dexterity of the defense was almost comical, as the Harvard players worked alone or in pairs to harass the beleaguered Brown offense at every turn...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Defense Staves Off Bears Before Offense Arrives | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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