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...bars, also blames a "minority" and says varied hours will help. "The information we've had from our members would seem to support the idea that we'd have reduced numbers of people on the street at the same time," says spokeswoman Christine Milburn. She adds that police should crack down on rowdy patrons and establishments that violate their licenses. Other pending measures would create "alcohol disorder zones" in unruly areas and levy fines on premises that consistently cause problems in order to fund more police. So far, the government has yet to sell its view to the public. Polls...
...former Washington mayor, who left office in disgrace and spent six months in jail after being caught on video smoking crack, is back. The newly elected city councilman boycotted last week's Inaugural because the Federal Government made the city of Washington pay part of the security costs. Earlier, TIME's Perry Bacon Jr. spoke with Marion Barry about his improbable comeback...
WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT PEOPLE, MANY OF THEM NEW RESIDENTS OF THE CITY, WHO KNOW YOU BEST FROM THE VIDEOTAPE OF YOUR SMOKING CRACK AND YOUR REACTION--"BITCH SET ME UP"? I don't try to do anything about that. You can't get everybody to like you, but I've got a lot of support in this town. People are trying to marginalize me. I won't be marginalized, and I won't be demonized. God gave me a gift to inspire people. It's not how many times you get knocked on your butt...
...hear Marion Barry tell it, his latest comeback is more George Washington than Robert Downey Jr. The one-time Washington, D.C. mayor, long ago dubbed ?Mayor for Life? for serving three terms, leaving office after being caught on film snorting crack cocaine and then winning reelection to lead the nation?s capital in 1994, says he had ?paid the rent? - the service to his fellow man that God requires of a person on Earth. In Barry's view, he, like Washington, was spending his time in blissful retirement when he was called by the people once more to serve. Having...
...rest. After racing back from a beach fishing trip the previous afternoon when he saw smoke on the horizon, Holman had spent much of the night helping other volunteer firefighters and neighbors save two farms from a bushfire that had finally seemed under control. "They were about to crack a beer," says Holman's wife Claire. "They thought we were safe." But then the wind changed - and with it the fortunes of the rural communities and farms of the lower peninsula, a sheep and grain district 650 km west of Adelaide. In searing heat, the wind accelerated to about...