Word: crackdown
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Prior to the raid, the agents obtained a federal warrant to investigate Lasaga as part of a nationwide crackdown on Internet child pornography rings...
...this oppression? In the name of order, holiness and purity! Coordinating the crackdown is the "General Department for the Preservation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," complete with Kalashnikov-carrying religious police who patrol the streets in pick-up trucks flying white flags, the symbol of purity. Aside from killing women who venture out alone to save their dying children, the religious police have lots of duties. They make sure all males grow mandatory beards (violators are locked up for 10 days of "religious instruction"), enforce the ban on music (too hedonistic) and confiscate television sets (the holiness...
...full independence. "The KLA have been clobbered, but their members are still out there and still armed," says Calabresi. "They don't even have to wait for spring to go out and pop a couple of policemen, and it's actions of that type that prompted Milosevic's brutal crackdown in the first place...
...situation in Kosovo is admittedly complex. The struggle of the Albanian rebels against the governing Serb regime raises difficult questions about claims to self-determination and the integrity of nation-states. But one thing is clear: the brutal nature of the Serb crackdown under the leadership of President Slobodan Milosevic ought to be recorded as one more count on Milosevic's already existing war crime indictment...
...applaud The Crimson's editorial board for its enlightened stance. Less than three years ago, in a staff editorial on Nov. 1, 1995, entitled "A Call for Moderation" written following the issuance of a statement on alcohol by the College, The Crimson urged, "Because a heavy-handed University crackdown on alcohol consumption would make the situation worse, we feel that a more effective policy would be for the administration to remain deliberately lenient in the enforcement of guidelines regarding the use of alcohol by underage students. When alcohol is used responsibly it can enliven many a social event...