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...these words without intending to insult homosexuals and bisexuals. However, any time these words are used regardless of the context, they serve to reinforce negative stereotypes. These and other words serve to validate people's homophobic feelings, and make it easier for people to use such words to harass homosexuals and bisexuals...
Each faction has its own "striking units," bands of dedicated activists who turn out on command to throw the stones, manufacture the Molotov cocktails, set up the road barricades and harass the army. "It's like a job," says Mahmoud. "This is their daily business." The striking units in his camp work from 10 to 6 every day, he says. "Now we are establishing new units to work at night." At this street level, there is relatively little factional rivalry or outside supervision. Only occasionally does each representative turn to his headquarters for orders. The closest thing to an outside...
...persistence and growth of the Boston Church of Christ should be an issue of concern and vigilance to every member of the Harvard community. The church has been known to harass potential converts with repeated calls and visits to student dorms--practices which violate an individual's right to privacy...
...almost nothing was known about the course of the conflict, though thousands were dying. When reporters cannot be kept out, governments seem increasingly willing to resort to intimidation and sabotage. In Panama, General Manuel Noriega tried to solve the problem of a bad press last week by having troops harass a group of foreign reporters, breaking cameras and destroying film...
...January 1986, for example, at North's urging, Reagan was persuaded to sign a finding authorizing the kidnaping of suspected terrorists. It also allowed the Government agents to monitor and harass not only individual terrorists and groups but also institutions that cooperated with them, such as foreign banks that financed their travel. North then began to map plans to put the finding into operation; so far, nothing much seems to have come of those plans, but the way North used the memorandum of notification, says one source ^ who worked with him, "really explains Ollie's rise to prominence." Watching...