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Cheng-san Chen, owner of the popular convenience store near Mather House, applied for the license after receiving a one-year prohibition last March on Sunday liquor sales, issued by the Commission after finding that Chen had intentionally sold alcohol to minors...
Legislators have often gone overboard in trying to curb citizens' behavior, but reality eventually sets in. Now, even as some state legislatures repeal their centuries-old bans on Sunday liquor sales, other lawmakers are trying novel ways of cracking down on leisurely lewdness and lollygagging. Here are some of the latest no-nos legislators have been drafting. --By Jeremy Caplan...
AXING ALCOHOL Alabama is banning its own state whiskey. Conecuh Ridge had been Alabama's "official state spirit," but last week its liquor license was revoked after its founder was charged with illegal sales to a minor...
They also stay in dreary hotels with no hot water. They get up at 6 in the morning every day. They go to dinners where they have to consume monstrous quantities of a Chinese liquor called baijiu (pronounced buy- joe), which is basically moonshine, only stronger and not quite as tasty. And at those dinners, sometimes what they have to eat is ... well, no doubt lots of fun for their bemused Chinese hosts. "There was one dish that looked like a bowl of ribbon pasta [but] it was crunchy and almost tasteless. I asked what it was, and the Mayor...
...Louie’s had never been able to sell liquor on Sundays before, why would a prohibition now hurt business? When he could not sell alcohol on Sunday, Chen reasons, “students would buy alcohol on Saturday and save it for Sunday. Now they can buy it on Sunday, so they don’t show up on Saturdays anymore...