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...entertainment and gossip value, and they egg Brennan on whenever his resentment shows signs of flagging. Blood feuds have been a way of life in this village for longer than anyone can remember, and O'Brien's evocative prose shows the chilling hold that history and the dead clamp on the living...
...seems like a no-brainer: requiring credit dodgers with considerable assets to pay off their debts. So it should come as no surprise that the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to clamp down on the growing number of people taking advantage of America's somewhat liberal bankruptcy laws. Under the bill, defaulters capable of paying off some, if not all, of their debts would be required to do so after all of their assets have been liquidated...
DEADBEAT CLAMPDOWN This month some Virginia parents are receiving pink or blue booties, courtesy of the state. The boots, though, are the kind that clamp onto a tire and will be used to immobilize the cars of egregiously deadbeat dads or moms. A window sticker accompanies each boot: "This vehicle has been seized by the sheriff for unpaid child support." The pioneering state shame-on-you plan is an expansion of a Fairfax County program that has netted $347,000 from 70 parents in two years...
...from loitering on median strips to getting food handouts in public parks. Fed up with the homeless, who, they say, are increasingly aggressive, violent and bad for business, at least 24 cities now conduct nightly "police sweeps" of their streets. In New York City, Mayor Rudy Giuliani vowed to clamp down after a homeless man seriously injured a woman by slamming her head with a brick. Giuliani ordered that all "able-bodied" homeless people must go to work or risk losing their city-provided shelter and possibly their children to foster care. The decree raised an outcry from civil libertarians...
Behind the August incident in Millau was a deep French anger at the U.S. decision to clamp 100% tariffs on Roquefort cheese and other luxury French-food imports--Washington's WTO-approved response to a European ban on its hormone-treated beef. The broader battle cry of these rural Robin Hoods is their rejection of "la mal-bouffe"--lousy food, as symbolized by the famous American burger chain. Carted off in handcuffs, Bove spent 20 days in prison and emerged as one of France's most popular heroes. Soon he was giving countless TV and newspaper interviews and crisscrossing...