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...administrative capital, they were handed a 24-page document whose terms were to go into effect on Dec. 11. The new regulations prohibit journalists from being "on the scene, or at a place within sight of any unrest, restricted gathering or security action" without permission of security officials. They forbid the reporting of "subversive" comments by those advocating a wide range of antigovernment actions. They ban the photographing of dead people, property damage or any other "visible signs" of unrest. Violations of the tough new restrictions can be punishable by suspension of operations for as long as three months...
...Rearrange your closet so that all your pants are on brown hangers, all your oxford shirts are on blue hangers and all your sport shirts are red hangers. Then stack your sweaters by color and the type of wool (or, God forbid, acrylic) they are made...
...teams from Kansas or Quebec or--God forbid--California in this Series. Just baseball's two favorites in the head-to-head match-up everybody had been waiting for since August...
Gallagher, like many liberals, does not support either, because he believes the bill's plan to repeal the surtax and forbid its reimposition will starve Massachusetts social services and education of funding...
Essentially, the decision leaves it up to each state whether to tolerate or forbid homosexual sodomy. Though all 50 states had antisodomy laws as late as 1961, those statutes have since been repealed or struck down by courts in 26 states; the Supreme Court's ruling will have little immediate effect there. Even the laws still on the books in 24 states--19 states and the District of Columbia criminalize all sodomy; five have laws that apply...