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...would rather not destroy my social life for the sake of your entertainment. Instead, I am going to try to limit my stories to my inanimate friends at Harvard. Like toilet bowls, liquor stores and the man from Kirkland House I went out with for the first three months of school...
Although the Christian Brothers say they want to focus on educational programs instead of wine production, some insiders suspect another reason: the conflict between the order's religious values and widespread public concern about alcoholism, which has led to a general decline in liquor sales...
Some historians remember the 1920s as the decade of decadence, the age of Prohibition, when alcoholism became chic and terribly American. Flasks were all the rage, and organized crime controlled the liquor supply. And as Hemingway recalls, it was a time when "good writers were drinking writers...
...James Beam distillery is the first liquor manufacturer to come to trial in a case involving fetal alcohol syndrome. Starting in November, all manufacturers of beer, wine and liquor must put labels on their containers warning that alcohol can cause birth defects and other health problems...
...phased 10 cents rise in the gasoline tax, to 21 cents. New York's Cuomo last week reached agreement with legislators on $1 billion in extra revenue, raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 21 cents to 33 cents and on an average bottle of liquor from 81 cents to $1.05, and imposing a host of license and fee increases. Even the cost of dying will triple: a death certificate goes from $5 to $15. Connecticut's Democratic Governor William O'Neill has sliced spending $150 million, and expects to close a remaining $97 million deficit mainly with...