Word: lockdown
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...Lockdown USA, by Michael Skolnik and Rebecca Chaiklin, follows the crusade of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and others to get Governor George Pataki and the state legislatures to change those laws. It?s a closeup lesson in political compromise - or, as many supporters of change see it, the humiliating status quo. "The Right, they?re calling it a jail break," says Simmons, while the Left, "they want total repeal." An hour into the film, Pataki and Simmons do cut a deal, but one that reduces the penalty from 15 to 9 years and still doesn?t allow judges...
...Quisque Jam at 10:30. If you’d rather drink than dance, check out “School’s Out: Let’s Party” at Hoffa’s presented by the folks who brought you the Takeover and the Lockdown. SATURDAY Girlspot’s sexy but non-degrading posters invite all to the Lowell Belltower for Fatale...
...Honiara remains under lockdown, with a night curfew and a ban on the sale of alcohol. As well as rushing in 220 extra soldiers and 70 police, Australia has dispatched two Navy patrol boats, two Army Iroquois helicopters and a platoon of airfield-defense guards. Together with reinforcements from Fiji, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, they are being kept on alert in case further violence breaks out when Parliament meets this week...
...said. Some students have organized their own festivities separate from group-sponsored parties. Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06, who threw “The Takeover,” a popular party in New Haven over Harvard-Yale weekend, has organized “The Lockdown,” a party at Hoffa’s Swiss Alps bar on 114 Mt. Auburn Street. “The Lockdown” has explicitly billed itself as a party for prefrosh, although the poster stresses that one must be “18 to dance, 21 to stumble...
...charges, says Khodorkovsky lawyer Yuri Schmidt, enable the authorities to deny the prisoner a more lenient regime and eventual parole. (Indeed, state prosecutors still threaten to press money laundering charges that could add another decade to Khodorkovsky's prison term.) But on Wednesday, a Krasnokamensk court ruled his first lockdown unlawful, and his lawyers are appealing the second charge...