Word: alcoholics
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...Boston Globe claimed that the patriotic policy has been in place since the Johnson Administration and that Gates, an admitted fan of Germany's Beck's and Jamaica's Red Stripe, would once again be out of luck. Is this true? Does the White House only serve American alcohol?(Read the Swampland post about White House beer...
Barry H. Laundau, presidential historian and author of The President's Table: 100 Years of Dining and Diplomacy, says that alcohol preference at the White House changes from administration to administration. Rutherford B. Hayes was a public teetotaler but a private drinker; the President would invite guests upstairs for a secret cocktail while his wife, "Lemonade Lucy," served non-alcoholic drinks downstairs. The Eisenhowers rarely served mixed drinks, Ronald Reagan enjoyed the occasional screwdriver, and George W. Bush, a recovering alcoholic, drank Buckler, a non-alcoholic beer made by Heineken (which is Dutch...
Milan Mayor Letizia Moratti called the new law a "response to an emergency" rather than some newfound whiff of puritanism. "It is a message to young people and their families that alcohol is bad for you and that alcohol abuse and dependence lead to negative consequences," she told reporters. (Read "Should You Drink with Your Kids...
...western Sicilian city of Caltagirone, famous as the birthplace of Don Luigi Sturzo, a Catholic priest and the father of Italy's modern Christian Democratic Party, will not punish underage consumers - or their parents - but it will impose fines of $70 to $350 on those who furnish them with alcohol...
Back in Rome, there are no new plans to fine underage drinkers or bar and supermarket owners who sell alcohol to under-16s. A new measure imposed this month, however, does prohibit the sale of glass bottles by bars for takeaway customers, in the hopes that the law might limit boozing to drinking establishments and reduce cleanup efforts. But bar manager Leuci says the problem isn't about what laws are passed or not but how they are enforced...