Word: drunkenness
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...pondered the implications of this peculiar phenomenon this Tuesday evening as I began to hear the customary drunken wails from nearby Dewolfe Street—which an illustrious peer of mine encouraged by hollering back from her Quincy window. I was reminded of the biological curiosity of the peacock’s tail: what is the evolutionary advantage to carrying around a cumbersome dangling appendage...
...Until, that is, he began speaking about Israel. Perhaps still smarting from Mel Gibson's drunken anti-semitic rant, Ganji seemed to hit a raw nerve when he appeared to equate Jewish (and Christian) fundamentalists with Islamic extremists. "The U.S. has to stop its one-sided support of Israel," said Ganji, speaking in a large screening room adorned with an original Jasper Johns and other post-modernist art. That comment and others raised the hackles of many in attendance, including multibillionaire media mogul Haim Saban, who asked, "When was the last time you saw a Christian...
...Stratford might see two or three crimes a month, says Taylor, 52, just back from a month's sick leave for a torn hamstring. These might be a drive-off from a petrol station or drunken driving on the Princes Highway; this morning, reports have come in of graffiti on road signs on the outskirts of town. Last Christmas there was a spate of thefts of solar- powered garden lights that Taylor wasn't able to crack. "They're unsolved crimes," he says, as is the disappearance of a duck from a local house around the same time...
...closing time at the local pub, and the main street of Borroloola, 730 km southeast of Darwin, has erupted in a series of drunken brawls. Spilling from the beer garden, heavily intoxicated Aborigines hurl cans, stones and abuse ("F___ you, c___, I'll kill you") at each other. At the hostel across the road, guests watching the communal television barely flinch. "We are so used to it now," says owner Trish Elmy, who sometimes puts up a barrier of water sprinklers to deter the mob from fighting near-or collapsing in-her property. "We know nothing gets done, so what...
...later issued an apology, both for the driving infraction and for what he called his "belligerent" behavior: "I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable." Gibson was arrested for drunken driving in 1984 while filming a movie in Toronto and later credited his faith with helping him overcome alcoholism. His publicist did not return calls for comment...