21.   People can now listen to music openly and shave their beards.

22.   Since then, Schneider has shaved his beard, hoping fewer people would recognize him.

23.   The New York City jail system has no requirement for shaving a beard, said his lawyer, Gerald Shargel.

24.   The talk in Kabul is that he may have escaped Kandahar by the humiliating tactic of shaving his beard and donning a burka.

25.   The Taliban had a Virtue Ministry that could put men in jail for the offense of shaving their beards.

26.   They shaved their beards and wore Western clothes in order to avoid detection, often using aliases and passwords.

27.   Torre told him Thursday night not to wear jeans on travel days, to be punctual and to shave his beard to a mustache, which he did.

28.   But the number of rebel fighters is dwindling and some have even shaved their beards and returned to Grozny to try to resume normal lives.

29.   But Wadhwa is not shaving his beard.

30.   Hoping to impose a Taliban-style brand of Islamic rule in the area, his followers routinely harass men who play music or shave their beards.