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...booze, though, were nothing compared to the regulations for female guests. In the early 1930s, women were only allowed in a Harvard gentleman’s room from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday afternoons—and only with the door open. “I suppose that policemen came by every so often to check,” he says...
...party or charity bazaar. They resist gentrification. They hang around in scuzzy bars, wallowing in anarchic musings: "I thought of my books, my children, and the fact that almost everybody sells used cars or dies early. I used to get so angry about this issue that I would drag policemen out of their cars...
Despite the remoteness of the disaster area, about 130 miles northeast of Milan, more than 4,000 amateur and professional rescue workers had rushed to the scene by late afternoon. Soldiers, firemen and policemen were joined by Alpine rescue squads with sniffer dogs trained to search out avalanche victims. Although rescue efforts continued through Friday night and Saturday, only eight people were found alive, and most of the work involved recovering bodies...
While the debate was going on, a new Syrian-backed security proposal was going into effect in Lebanon, initially with promising results. Some 200 red-bereted policemen, backed by 400 Lebanese soldiers and Syrian observers, took over security in Muslim West Beirut and at Beirut International Airport. For the first time in several weeks, militiamen all but disappeared from the city's streets, and the offices of the various Muslim militia groups were shut down. The changed situation prompted the feuding Christian militias on the other side of Beirut's "green line" to reunite their fighting forces. The Syrians...
Residents who once looked to policemen for protection, Magubane explains, have changed their minds "after they have had their door kicked down in the dead of night, their houses invaded, their parents hauled out of bed and their relatives beaten. Right now the people here would rather deal with white policemen than black. In the '80s," he adds, "the anger is against blacks who work within the system...