Word: outlaw
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...residents” to build an art museum in the Riverside neighborhood is stunningly naive. The University fought for three years for permission to build a museum on land it owns, which is currently occupied by Mahoney’s Garden Center. Cambridge responded by rezoning the land to outlaw any building taller than 24 feet...
...enforcement officials in India, the career of notorious outlaw Muniswamy Veerappan has played out with depressing monotony: India's most famous criminal kidnaps someone famous, ransom is paid, police swear they'll catch him next time and the cycle repeats. The state governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in southern India claim to have spent $30 million over 15 years trying to capture him, but Veerappan?alleged to have had a hand in more than 130 murders?has remained untouchable, thanks to his jungle survival skills and police corruption. Now, after laying low for two years, he's tried...
...what the advocates of the administration's "preemption" doctrine, laid out in the President's graduation speech at West Point in June are advocating. The Cold War frameworks of containment and deterrence simply don't apply in an era of suicide terror, they argue, and America can't tolerate outlaw states developing weapons of mass destruction which, even if they don't use them themselves, may fall into the hands of terrorists. By this logic, Saddam Hussein must be taken out because of his active pursuit of nuclear weapons, and this must be done before he realizes his nuclear ambitions...
...poor and desolate Muslim provinces of the south, violence is a hallowed tradition. The thick forests and craggy hills of this region provide an ideal haven and hideout for outlaw gangs that run contraband, sell drugs and weapons, or extort protection money. But it's not just the impenetrable terrain that shields the bandits, says Perayot Rahimula, a political scientist at Prince of Songkhla University. Both Perayot and Vairoj say what most locals are afraid to: the outlaws are controlled and protected by corrupt local politicians, rogue soldiers and the police. As disputes over these illicit businesses flare...
...With the outlaw cafes charging less than 50[cents] an hour, many aficionados seem unwilling to abandon their hangouts just because of another government crackdown. Along an alley off one of Shanghai's busiest thoroughfares, several unlicensed cafes are packed--as scouts keep an eye out for the police. "Why are they trying to close us down?" asks Zhang Guoming, 34, a cybercafe owner. "Coming to an Internet bar is cheaper than karaoke or a pub. There's less harm in it than going elsewhere...