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That means HIPJ protesters will march off Harvard property and beyond the campus police’s jurisdiction. Riley said that Cambridge, Boston, and state police officers could arrest student protesters if the march blocks traffic...
...long stretch of driving from New Orleans ended two days later, in Memphis. We had visited a plantation in Louisiana’s swampland, passed dozens of trailer homes, left behind many stalks of corn, and checked another state off the map. Memphis was frozen in a traffic jam, but there it was: urban, alive...
...After weaving through the Baghdad traffic, the three cars came to a halt in gridlock on Route Irish. It was a few minutes before noon. American troops had blocked the road to clear away the remains of a car damaged by a bomb. Civilian vehicles between the convoy and the roadblock turned off to find alternative routes. The security men, wearing white Arab robes, sat quietly in the line of traffic. Then team leader Johnson climbed out of Ahmelman's car and began firing in the air to warn other vehicles to stay clear - an act which clearly identified...
...After Johnson's warning shots, the three cars rolled forward some 300 m to put distance between them and the traffic queued behind them. They were still about 1 km short of the U.S. roadblock. There they remained for over 10 minutes, talking nervously on their radios. Suddenly, to their right, a white Chevrolet SUV with blacked-out windows sped along a slip road, made a U turn, and stopped about 200 m away, facing the convoy. From its passenger window, a belt-fed machinegun opened fire. The first bullets announced themselves with a puff of dust beside Yeager...
...original peace process, and prime minister Mahinda Rajapakse, backed by Sinhalese nationalists who, while not openly advocating war, oppose the current ceasefire. Whatever the answers, the residents of Tigerland say there is one unquestionable upside to the detente, as long as it lasts. With battle-hardened guerrillas for traffic cops, no one's yet been known been known to speed in Tamil Tiger territory...