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...vigilantes, mostly semi-educated young men bitterly opposed to Western values, have broken into compounds in Riyadh and Jidda to threaten and arrest Westerners drinking home-brewed liquor in defiance of the ban on alcohol. A women's tennis tournament in Riyadh was halted when the mutawain learned of it. The government advised an oil-company executive to cancel a party because members of both sexes were invited. Wives of Western businessmen and diplomats are fearful of leaving their villas in the evening unless accompanied by their husbands. To do otherwise in the atmosphere of intimidation created by the mutawain...
Last fall, self-described "humorists" from the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-sadomasochistic social club that periodically publishes perennially pitiful parodies--axmurdered Cambridge's brave, defenseless Freedom tree. This violent affront to American liberty and the local environment sickened and saddened...
...Everyone shouts 'Lana!' and does a semi-coercion routine to get her on stage," recalls Mufson. "Lana goes up there, kind of reluctantly. She starts out, she's a little bit nervous, but then she completely gets into it, and dazzles the restaurant...
...City Council created the post in 1977 in response to similar pressures, but funding had not been allocated for the position until last spring. City Manager Robert W. Healy conducted the selection process, which he began by whittling a preliminary list of 247 applicants down to nine semi-finalists in January with the aid of a 10-member professional advisory panel...
...Crimson advanced to the semi-finals of the ECAC tournament this year--one round further than the 1989-1990 season, and its 13-7-2 record was a three point improvement upon last year's ECAC record...