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Making his own way is nothing new for Graham. He grew up in the rooms behind the Sanitary Cafe, a pool hall, bar and liquor store that his parents owned in Central, S.C. Graham's father, known as Dude, tended bar for the millworker clientele; the future Senator racked balls and answered phones. You've learned everything you really need to know about politics, Graham says, when you've had the experience of telling a wife who is on the line and looking for her husband, "He says he's not here." Graham set his sights on the military early...
...pleasant. However, I do think they have the freight of substance." Dirty words or no, Lenny's real crime was criticizing organized religion in cities where many of the police, prosecutors and judges were conservative Catholics. Cops threatened nightclub owners who booked Lenny. Two owners had their liquor licenses suspended. Another, when Lenny performed at his place, was tried and convicted of sponsoring an obscene show...
...they beat or keep destitute, to the drinkers' own bodies-is incalculable. Borroloola's troubles with alcohol are shared by most Top End towns where the sale of alcohol is virtually unlimited. Authorities say they are working hard to remedy the problem, preparing alcohol-management plans, cracking down on liquor suppliers who break the law, and providing social services to help mitigate the damage. But if things in Borroloola are any guide, none of it is working. Despite constant pleas for government assistance from the town's council, health clinic, businesses and residents, the epidemic of binge drinking and violence...
...just another community in the queue. The Territory's Darwin-based head of Racing, Gaming and Licensing, Elizabeth Morris, admits that some complaints about the Borroloola Inn were not investigated for months after a licensing inspector failed to forward e-mails. But she blames most delays on an unwieldy Liquor Act (which is to be rewritten at the end of the year) and Borroloola's remoteness. "We have to charter a plane to get there," she says. As for the convoluted process for dealing with complaints, "We do need to have a fair system,'' she says...
...when he protests he's forced into it, and spotted by the police. He gets away, but Walt's brother Al is picked up. Now Steve is on the bad side of the cops and, worse, Walt. The big man has an unattractive side: sadistic psychosis. He breaks a liquor bottle and hulks toward Steve (the camera). "Say, I'll bet that bride of yours is pretty. ... If Al doesn't walk out of that police station by midnight, your wife ain't gonna be so good to look...