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...charged with any offense and had not asked for a lawyer, sources told TIME. Investigative sources suggest the slacker pose was just a cunning cover. Still, Al-Marabh didn't try very hard to evade capture last week: minutes before his arrest, he told his boss at 7 Days Liquor in Burbank, Ill., that the authorities wanted him for something that had happened in Boston. "I knew you were coming," he said when FBI agents came to take him away...
Closing time in downtown Boston, post-clubbing: Exiting the Roxy, I notice a black limo passing. Four small American flags flutter on the vehicle—ambassadorial style. Drunk men peer out of its darkened windows, waving 40s of malt liquor in hand and yelling, “Go America! Go America! Go America!” All the party people, standing on a sidewalk still wet from rain, reward this chant with a tipsy round of applause...
...lovers bemoan the current state of drinking in the Square—the Good Will Hunting curse proved deadly for the Bow, landlords kicked out Grafton and pesky cops forced the closure of the Grille. But as they bitch about the lack of quality liquor-selling establishments, gowns so often forget that local town favorite, Whitney’s. Adorned with a simple shamrock motif, the small bar is so unobtrusive, many students don’t even realize it exists. Yet, across from 7-11 and tucked between Leo’s and the AmEx travel agency...
...Review?s list of top party schools) has banned beer sales in its football stadium. Florida State University (ranked fourth) has banned alcohol advertising on campus and notifies parents when their children break campus alcohol policy. The University of Wisconsin (ranked ninth) actually sits in on its town?s liquor licensing decisions, ensuring that bars near campus don?t promote drink specials and offer occasional alcohol-free evenings. Wisconsin also gave up more than $500,000 a year in alcohol revenues by banning beer sales in its new hockey arena...
Today Foca's main street is a gallery of despair. Limping war veterans drink hard liquor from a can, scrutinizing every new car that strays into town and gruffly cutting off questions before they are asked. Local thugs in leather coats scowl as a visitor approaches. In 1998 a Human Rights Watch report estimated that no fewer than eight indicted war criminals lived here. A Muslim U.N. investigator who worked in Foca for two years felt compelled to spend the night a few miles down the road. At dusk, he says, "a shadow" descends on the town. Foca, he says...