Word: curfews
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...seething potential fault line is Kirkuk, the only city in Iraq that still has a curfew. Tension persists between the Kurds on one side and Arabs and Turkomans on the other. Many Kurds say they don't want full independence but insist on a great deal of autonomy, which the new interim constitution affords them. But the rival groups coexist warily. Saddam had expelled many Kurds from Kirkuk in his attempt to Arabicize the city. Now they're coming back to try to reclaim their homes. Haider Mohammed, 20, an Arab who studies at a local technical college, says Kurds...
...surface, life in Kirkuk seems normal, but there is a general sense of unease, and the streets empty early, long before the 11 p.m. curfew. In January a demonstration by Arabs and Turkomans against the Kurds in Kirkuk was met with gunfire from the police, and four died. "It will get worse," says Jalil Ismael, 58, a Turkoman, over a game of backgammon in his antique store in the center of the city. "They want to make this a Kurdish city...
...even once wrote a fairly maudlin poem that listed all of the things I’d like to have done if I had been alive then. It included such items as looking forward to the next Beatles album, sneaking a sophomore out of her dormitory window after curfew, sitting around the television with my family when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon...and heckling Robert S. McNamara...
Others felt that the room parties would themselves improve with the extended curfew...
Dingman added that the 2 a.m. rule did not extend to parties in common areas and said that Master-sponsored events—like the Leverett ’80s Dance—would retain a 1 a.m. curfew...