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...with stray pets, worn tires, and missing keys." He is a saint maybe, like one of the exceedingly normal yet extraordinarily courageous and strong characters who populate the works of Anne Tyler; a modern day tragic hero whose Achilles' heel and fatal flaw is a penchant for liquor. Lou Sloane's abrupt and cruel parting from Billie rouses Hex from his lackadaisical work as a publicist. Hex is the only other person who can interpret his mother's "syllabic puree;" he knows that Lou has stuck him 'with her, yet he gradually comes to accept and even relish the challenge...
...package store owners in northern Massachusetts have their way, one of the last of the state's blue laws will soon be retired. A group of store owners is challenging the prohibition against Sunday liquor sales, claiming the law is arbitrary and violates their state and federal constitutional rights to due process. Currently, store owners within 10 miles of the New Hampshire border are granted exemptions, and during the holiday season some counties--Middlesex County included--allow Sunday openings...
Unlike in Massachusetts, it is legal to sell liquor in New Hampshire on Sundays, and so the border exemption was made to keep liquor stores from losing the business. However, the law allows towns with so much as a sliver of land within 10 miles of New Hampshire to be covered by the exemption. Store owners in Ipswich, Mass. are allowed to sell on Sundays, while owners in its more northerly neighbor Essex are not, because a sliver of Ipswich stretches up within the ten mile zone. In response to the liquor store owners' complaints, the state Alcoholic Beverages Control...
...tells a gathering at a Beverly Hills hotel that they're spoiled by cheap labor, cheap oil and cheap sex. He tells black churchgoers to go easy on the malt liquor and give up on the "running back who stabbed his wife." He shocks a group of cosseted movie moguls by calling their product schlock...
...their Congressman. Just last month, when a stricter drunken-driving standard was up for a vote, Mothers Against Drunk Driving couldn't get in to see key members, who they were told were "in conference or on the floor." But the door was open for the lobbyists for liquor and restaurants, who have donated $25 million. The standard died in committee...