Word: illicitness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...although it has a reputation for providing massages, it is not usually filled with clients looking for massages. On a typical day she gives one to three massages, she said. She said she has seen nothing suspicious or illegal happen in the salon, although some customers have asked for illicit services. “I haven’t really seen anything besides men coming here lately,” she said. “You get that everywhere, people asking for more than a massage. Just because it looks like this, doesn’t mean we offer that...
...forces of law and order have yet to make an impact on several illicit criminal enterprises. And none is as visible and pervasive as the one that has snared Junelyn's pubescent daughter. A report on child sexual exploitation in the Solomons, commissioned by the United Nations Children's Fund (unicef), was completed in 2004 but has never been publicly released. A copy obtained by Time documents dozens of examples of child sexual abuse - from underage prostitution to the manufacture of child pornography, child sex tourism and marriages of convenience. The report has been in the hands of the Solomon...
...fellow Taiwanese was excised from the mainland broadcast of the Oscars?as was a speech on gay love, which is widely stigmatized in China. While Beijing hasn't allowed the film to be distributed, curious Chinese are in luck: thanks to rampant piracy on the mainland, illicit DVDs are widely available...
...Berlusconi has won two times at the polls - in 1994 and 2001 -despite a range of accusations of illicit business dealings hanging over him. He has never received a final guilty verdict in Italy's three-stage appeal process, though several cases were eventually shelved because the statute of limitations had expired. This time, prosecutors accuse the 69-year-old media mogul of ordering the payment in 1997 of some $600,000 to British lawyer David Mills ? a onetime business associate of Berlusconi's who helped the magnate set up offshore accounts ? in exchange for Mills' false testimony...
...sensitive to their own privacy,” says Harvard College Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68. “Things that shock me don’t shock my children.”And Lewis is right. Students post everything on these websites: their sexual proclivities, illicit photographs, and perhaps most worrisome, their contact information.With the advent of blogging and continuously updated online news media, access to information is almost unparalleled. Even information that seems semi-private, such as profiles on Facebook—which are only accessible by certain portions of the public?...