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Another tool for which lawmakers are reaching to control crime before it happens is teen curfews. Two dozen cities have adopted them, many in the past year. This month Florida's attorney general will push the legislature for a statewide curfew aimed at everyone younger than 18. The city of Tampa got a jump on that last week when it opted for an 11 p.m. curfew for youths 16 or younger, with an extension to midnight on weekends. It is the parents who get punished -- with a warning, the first time their kids are caught. For subsequent offenses, the penalties...
Immediately after the quake hit, city officials seemed less worried about such matters than about a repetition of the hooliganism accompanying the 1992 riots. Police chief Willie Williams instituted a dusk-to-dawn curfew and warned that looters would be prosecuted and jailed. Instead, in the first few | days crime dropped 80%. Maybe people were too awed to loot anything but grapefruits from public parking lots. There was a treeful right here at the mall, and the quake has shaken them down prematurely, brilliant yellow polka dots on a gray field. A family rushes to the lot and collects...
...easy being the younger one. At the magazine we get a little jealous of the newspaper. Crimson always gets the attention of administrators, Crimson gets the bigger offices, Crimson has a later curfew. (Wait--not always. Sometimes FM closes out hours and hours after The Crimson. Know why? Because Crimson gets to use the Imagesetter first, that...
Other songs also demonstrate Brooks' impressive range. Ain't Going Down (Til the Sun Comes Up) is a country-rock romp about a daughter out past curfew; One Night a Day starts with some Billy Joel-like piano stroking and later fades into a soulful saxophone solo. But through all this, it's hard to forget Brooks' cheap shot at people "standing in a welfare line...
...There are going to be 7,000 police out there," a dismayed Beatty warned. "The shopkeepers this time are armed and are going to protect themselves. There will be a curfew. So someone's going to get hurt...