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...More Payment is a classic hard-times complaint about the rent, the banker at the door, and a roof that is crumbling. But the current country songs also hurl Molotov cocktails at the upper classes and the system that favors them. Brooks succeeded last year in making a national barroom anthem out of Friends in Low Places, which turned an abandoned lover's revenge into an act of social protest. "Blame it all on my roots," he sang. "I showed up in boots/ And ruined your black-tie affair...
HOUSTON--Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens was found innocent yesterday of a misdemeanor charge stemming from an alleged barroom brawl with an off-duty officer...
...three-time Cy Young winner was found innocent of a misdemeanor charge stemming from an alleged barroom brawl with an off-duty officer in Harris County...
Priscilla Loston, 35, the group's feisty treasurer, is one of the nail pullers. She recently received a new home, a former country barroom that was transplanted to Four Corners to replace her tumbledown shack. She did much of the makeover, dividing the interior into separate rooms and installing paneling and electrical boxes. "This is Four Corners Self Help, not sit on your butt and get help," says Loston, as she yanks out a stubborn nail...
Among those who think such fears are overstated is Judge William G. Young, who allowed cameras to cover the barroom rape trial in New Bedford, Mass., that was the basis of the movie The Accused. Says Young: "I came away from that convinced that if you had careful controls, TV did not change the dynamics of the trial or the fairness of the trial to the litigants...