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Representatives from local churches and neighborhood groups told the three-member commission that Ruggles Pizza and Grendel's Den should not be allowed to serve liquor, arguing that the 39 establishments already selling liquor in the Square adequately satisfy public demand...
Grendel's Den was originally denied a liquor license in 1977 because of a veto by the Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church. A state law allowing a church to prevent restaurants from serving alcohol within 500 feet of its door enabled the church to exercise its veto. But ruling on an appeal of the Grendel's case, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the state, law unconstitutional...
...February 5, 1983, the Harvard men's swimming team traveled to the Tigers' den. Dillon Pool in Princeton, N.J. On the line against the once-again shaved Princetonian was a 28-meet string of victories, the longest in NCAA Division I swimming...
...arguments for capital punishment are usually visceral or anecdotal. Ernest van den Haag, professor of jurisprudence and public policy at Fordham University, says flatly, "Nobody fears prison as much as death." Florida's Governor Graham, who has signed 45 death warrants, cites the case of a restaurant robbery seen by a customer. "Afterward," recounts Graham, "he was the only witness. So the two guys took him out to the Everglades and shot him in the back of the head. If they had felt that being convicted for robbery and first-degree murder was sufficiently different, they might have...
Proponents see the distinction between murder and state-sanctioned executions in a different light. "One is legal, the other is not," Van den Haag says. "If I take you and put you in a room against your will, it is called kidnaping. If I put on a uniform and put you in a room against your will, it's called arrest...