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When the topic of nonsensical governance of commodities is on the floor of the legislature again next week, there’s another issue students would benefit to see debated: the ban on selling liquor in grocery stores. While Californians can enjoy the privilege of buying their Smirnoff in any Safeway, Massachusetts citizens, and the students that dwell seasonally within its drier-than-thou borders, are denied this convenience...
...became active in an effort to save an Inuit (Eskimo) village from being destroyed by hydrogen bomb tests. We organized contact with the House and Senate and slowed it down. When Kennedy signed the atmospheric test ban treaty with Khrushchev, that killed...
Adult forces--parents, schools, churches--find it hard to compete with pop culture. Some schools have dress codes that outlaw visible underwear, but enforcing a ban on something as subtle as a thong isn't easy, as a vice principal at a San Diego high school learned to the detriment of her career last year. Her methodology left something to be desired: she was demoted after she lifted skirts for an undies inspection before allowing girls into a school dance...
...Alfonso Portillo, who is barred by law from another term) is tainted by scandals, including an alleged $44 million bilking of the federal social security fund. In July, Ríos Montt campaign thugs set off a two-day riot in Guatemala City after lower courts - citing a constitutional ban on former coup leaders running for President - blocked his candidacy. Five days later the high court, dominated by Ríos Montt allies, ruled he could run. Last month his supporters beat up locals, representing scorched-earth victims, who decried his visit to the town...
...once again, these are not considerations that most politicians and prudish public health missionaries have taken because this ban is not really about helping bar employees but about enforcing a way of life. A certain group of people, whether they be Starbucks swilling gym-junkie yuppies or the spiritual heirs of 1920s Prohibitionists, would like to see smoking banished from their gated kingdom. Their hand has been tipped by the most notorious of their lot, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has repeatedly called smokers “stupid” and “crazy...