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...restrictions themselves. They were the grim reality of life here before the 1997 election of the liberalizer Mohammad Khatami. The difference today is the sporadic and velvet-gloved implementation of the old codes. Instead of announcing new bans or dispatching morality police onto the streets of Tehran to harass and arrest young people - the crude, classic measures that fomented much anger and discontent - the system is employing more subtle means that seek to make Iranians themselves, instead of uniformed agents of the state, the enforcers...
...right offered Chen no protection. Just hours after he met with my colleague Hannah Beech, security officials from his hometown arrived to shut him up. They forced him into a van and bundled him back to his home, where they confiscated his computer, began to intimidate and harass his family members and kept him under informal - and illegal - house arrest...
...with the family. Having spent a freezing night in the square, exhausted by sporadic scuffles with the police, or fighting back bulldozers threatening to erase their makeshift abodes, they could have used some hot food - if only the police who cordoned off the square would not harass those trying to bring...
...live to tell tales of the marauding buccaneers who currently infest the sea-lanes of Southeast Asia. Piracy has become an all too real contemporary scourge for fishing and commerce across an expanse of ocean stretching from the Malay peninsula to the Philippines. Sumatran pirates constantly harass coastal freighters and fishermen in the Straits of Malacca ... Pleasure boats headed toward Bali from Hong Kong and Thailand are warned to stay away from the Celebes Sea. Cutlass and sword are pass?. Asian pirates today pounce from hidden coves in supercharged speedboats or trawlers armed with automatic rifles, M-79 grenade launchers...
...Brush said. Kwong said his main priority now is to educate students of the rules of the license. He also advocated asking the Harvard University Police Department to send an officer to the restaurant at closing time to ensure that students do not bang on the windows and harass Felipe’s employees into opening after hours. Brush reiterated how hard it is to keep students who want food out of the store. While he said there has never been a fight in the restaurant, he said “it does get physical every night...