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PAGING THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM...
Peter Bennett is celebrating the end of the week by knocking back a glass of lager at the Bell Inn. The Nottingham University engineering student estimates he'll down eight or nine pints before night's end. That's what he says he puts away in his thrice-weekly sessions, which start at a pub around 9 p.m. and end at a club five or six hours later. "We definitely drink more" in Britain, he says. "It's just the culture to get pissed, I guess." Outside, two young men square off drunkenly but stop when a police van glides...
...provided under the new law, they oppose longer hours because they say they lack the resources to deal with the problems they expect to arise from them. "I don't have a box of police I can take and put elsewhere," says Allison. A lot of people in Nottingham share that view. Take Tony Lovett, a cab driver who usually doesn't work weekend nights because of the hassle from rowdy drunks. "Increasing opening hours is bad," he says. "The city on Friday and Saturday nights is total mayhem." Many people blame price wars among pubs for encouraging binge drinking...
...makes a certain kind of cosmic sense that a writer of fantastical literature should come from a relatively mundane background. Clarke, the daughter of a Methodist minister, was born in Nottingham, went to Cambridge and then took a series of publishing jobs in London. The first glimmers of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell came to her during a year she spent teaching English in Bilbao, Spain. "I had a kind of waking dream," Clarke remembers, "about a man in 18th century clothes in a place rather like Venice, talking to some English tourists. And I felt strongly that he had some...
Harvard’s success ensured four years of perfect racing for both Shaw and Gregg Stone ’75, the only exception being losses to the Soviet Union and East Germany at the World Championships in Nottingham, England...