Word: curfew
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...nine o'clock on a gamy summer night, and Bill Stewart is on curfew patrol. The probation officer bounds up the stairs of a Dorchester triple-decker apartment building to check on a boy who was once caught with marijuana. The boy must be home between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., seven days a week, under a system of court-ordered curfews for young offenders, each curfew set individually by a judge. There had been worrisome signs of gang involvement in this case. A week ago, someone fired a shotgun blast into the second-floor porch...
...capital, U.N. mediators worked feverishly for a last-minute peace deal and State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns urged Americans to leave, saying "the end game is approaching." U.S. troops were preparing to evacuate Americans from the capital. On Tuesday, Mobutu Sese Seko's government imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the city's residents. Although officials said the restrictions were imposed to prevent looting and unrest among civilians, it is government soldiers who have ransacked other cities as Kabila's troops advanced. Fearing that the final battle is near, shops and stalls at the central market closed early, while...
...Harvard party scene. Do people actually like that one about another night, another dream but always you? Are people so full of cheap beer they don't even notice? Is it that Harvard parties--stuffed between an unofficial 11 p.m. starting time and an all too official 1 a.m. curfew--are so short that deejays feel like there's only time to play songs that everyone can recognize...
...pyramid schemes left thousands destitute. Defrauded investors took to the streets to protest their suspicion that government officials at least tacitly allowed the schemes to continue and perhaps even profited from them. After protests turned violent, the government declared a state of emergency Sunday evening and enforced a strict curfew, authorizing police to shoot armed rebels who offer resistance...
...years. When he was 13 and living in Columbus, Ohio, his mother Denetta was beaten to death. He had never seen his father, so for months he was passed around among aunts and uncles until the parents of a schoolmate finally took him in. He was given a curfew, a newspaper route--and a new life. "They settled me down," Glenn says. "I just wanted a home foundation." In high school he starred at football, but coaches at Ohio State told him that at 5 ft. 10 in. and 180 lbs. he was too small for the Big 10. Glenn...