Word: curfew
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...after five days, the army lifts the curfew...
...fruits and vegetables, the figs and grape leaves and fragrant mint, the baklava with its hovering bees, the butchered goats and lambs and live chicks in cardboard boxes, rectangles of softly agitating yellow fluff. The narrow alleys of the Casbah fill with the smells and bustle of marketing after curfew. Palestinian life in the steep-sided hills of the occupied West Bank makes one of its dreamlike passages back to the state of mind in which, for a moment, it feels normal...
...passed by a vote of six to two, marks the first time Cambridge has sanctioned the use of electronic amplifiers by street musicians. It also establishes performance sound levels, an 11 o'clock curfew and a $25 fine for each infraction...
...days is the utter alienation of Kashmiri Muslims. Anti-Indian sentiment has spread from the angry young men of the J.K.L.F. and the twelve other rebel organizations to the businessmen and bureaucrats who might be expected to support the status quo. The best recruiter for the rebels is the curfew, which the government has imposed off and on since December. In April the curfew lasted 17 days straight. It was intended to keep 1.5 million Kashmiris in place while heavily armed troops carried out house-to-house, room-to-room, closet-to-closet $ searches. Today, if a visitor happens into...
...roommates. Many couples live out of one room anyway, with the non-resident member of the couple using his or her own room only as a mailing address. Others live together over the summer, only to suffer artificial separation during the year. Short of implementing a John Silber-style curfew on coed visitation (and concommitant encouragement of masturbation), Harvard cannot prevent either phenomenon...