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...Hanoi officials claim the refugees' stories are fabrications. The government denies access to the Central Highlands by journalists and representatives of humanitarian aid organizations. But recent reports by Human Rights Watch and the U.S. State Department corroborate Montagnard accounts. "This is a systematic crackdown," says Mike Jendrzejczyk of Human Rights Watch. "And it's still going...
...perennial crackdown on naughty dancing is under way. At Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Md., administrators concerned about the rise in so-called freak dancing, a hip-grinding, sex-simulating step, recently increased the number of chaperones and gave them flashlights to bust dirty dancers. Several Los Angeles high schools have benched the C-walk, a hip-hop dance step popularized by rappers like Lil Bow Wow. The C stands for Crip--the Crips are a notorious L.A. gang credited with introducing the dance at least a decade ago. It has long since crossed gang lines, but school officials...
...euphoria is short-lived. After a savage military crackdown in which thousands of unarmed protesters are murdered, a dazed Khoo Thwe stands on the banks of the Irrawaddy River watching corpses spin past on the milk-chocolate currents. As the regime starts liquidating all remaining dissenters?his beloved Moe among them?what began as a lyrical coming-of-age tale becomes a dark and gripping story of survival. Pursued by government soldiers, Khoo Thwe and fellow students flee into the jungle to join ethnic insurgents on the Thai-Burma border, enduring both disease and terrifying assaults by the Burmese army...
City Councillor Edward A. Sullivan yesterday demanded action on what he termed “the deplorable parking situation around Harvard.” Meanwhile Acting Chief Patrick J. McCarthy last night ended rumors of an immediate police crackdown on overnight parking...
...human rights and condemned the detention without recourse to the normal legal process of more than 1,100 foreign nationals since Sept. 11. COLOMBIA Time to Talk Having won the election outright in the first round, President-elect Alvaro Uribe pledged to commit men and money to a crackdown on the drug trade. Uribe won 53% of the vote and promised to halt the activities of left-wing rebels and right-wing paramilitaries, who use money from drug trafficking to finance fighting that kills thousands each year. He also sent a request to the U.N. to mediate...