Word: harassement
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...residents are exposing themselves to public ridicule for a good cause, but unlike date auctions, Eliot’s annual date raffle entails no awkward stage time and no discernible dating. It does, however, entail some pretty sweet boxes. Participants in the date raffle decorate boxes for themselves and harass their friends to fill them with tickets, all to raise money for a good cause. This year, proceeds will go to the Boston Shriners Hospital for Children, a facility that provides comprehensive care for young burn victims. HoCo social chairs solicit donations from local businesses as prizes for the contestants...
...military jury acquitted Cardona of seven charges, including alleged attempts to harass a second prisoner with his dog. Cardona's lawyers argued that their client's actions at Abu Ghraib were condoned, if not approved in each case, by officers in charge of the prison, as well as senior officials in the Army command...
...blamed for the kidnapping and murder of Sunnis in Baghdad. "One of the sheiks--and he was a Shi'ite--said the police may themselves have been involved in taking Waddah," Haseeba says. "And even if they weren't, they would not help a Sunni family. They would only harass us for the ransom money...
...family has owned since 1944 would one day sprout 40 oil wells, 80 miles of pipeline and three railroad tracks. In recent years, he has set some house rules. In a "surface-use agreement," he stipulated that the workers leave their dogs at home so they wouldn't harass his 1,000 sheep and 500 head of cattle. But he and his wife had to build a new house on the far corner of the property to get away from the noise. They are paid for their troubles--$1,500 a month for damages and $400 a year in royalties...
...hypermorality isn't exactly a return to the days of the Ayatullah Khomeini. Today the tactics are subtler than in the past, when morality police were dispatched onto the streets of Tehran to harass youth. Instead, regular Iranians are being cowed into the role of enforcer...