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...Keith Dayton, the Palestinians trained five brigades (2,500 troops) of a new national-security force - with two more in the pipeline - and began training local police. "We started with Nablus, the most lawless city," says Fayyad. "Our policy was zero tolerance. Anyone who committed a crime was an outlaw, regardless of party affiliation." It seems to have worked. Nell Derick Debevoise, an American woman who works with an excellent pre- and after-school program in Nablus called Tomorrow's Youth, told me, "When I first got here, you couldn't walk the streets or go to the Old City...
...Hampshire's legalization of gay marriage in June), others sneaked onto the books without much notice at all (Arkansas now prohibits the sale of toy guns that look real--unless they're of the BB, paintball or pellet variety). With the New Year, Illinois became the 19th state to outlaw texting while driving; North Carolina, a major tobacco-producing state, outlawed smoking in restaurants and bars; and California became the first state to partly ban trans fats in restaurant food...
Visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the bald eagles on Camano Island in Washington State's Puget Sound are more likely to see a different bird in the sky: a police chopper skimming the cedar forests in search of an outlaw. Colton Harris-Moore, a gangly 18-year-old with furtive eyes and a dimpled chin, has been on police blotters since he was accused of stealing a bike at the age of 8. Since then, he is suspected of having committed nearly 100 burglaries in Washington, Idaho and Canada. Police allege that he graduated from bikes to cars...
...together at all, it will be thanks to its No. 2, General Sekouba Konate. The days after Camara was shot, Pivi's troops launched an assault on Toumba. Various reports of pillaging and violence by opposing factions emerged, but the chaos could have been worse. Konate was quick to outlaw Toumba, who is now in hiding, and scores of his supporters have been arrested...
...fact that the movie was originally slated for release last autumn and bounced around this fall's schedule before landing in Thanksgiving week suggests that the questions stumped the marketing professionals as well. But if Hillcoat--best known for his Australian outlaw tale The Proposition--and screenwriter Joe Penhall felt any pressure to temper the novel's agonies, they shrugged it off. Their Road is respectful of McCarthy's glumness, and they have made no effort to soften the despair...