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...Grille was charged with allowing underage drinking and was hit with a 30-day suspension of its liquor license. The suspension was served on selected days over a one-year period...
...Alex was arrested and placed in a youth home for one night. Over the next several weeks, Alex burgled homes, stashing the loot in his bedroom, which he would not allow his parents to enter. As Alex grew more confrontational, Anthony began to fear for the safety of his wife and their two younger daughters. Last September, when police wanted to return Alex to a youth home, the parents did not resist. Two months later, Alex pleaded no contest to burglary, weapons and drug charges, and began a one-year sentence in juvenile detention...
...significant victory in 1992, when George Bush signed a bill sponsored by Vermont's Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. The legislation outlawed the export of U.S.-made antipersonnel mines for one year. Later, Leahy succeeded in extending the law through 1997. Then in 1995 he won the votes for a one-year ban on the use of all mines, except along international borders and in demilitarized zones, to take effect in 1999. "Mines are the worst of human depravity," Leahy argued...
Major League Soccer, the latest attempt to bring the world's most popular sport to the U.S., needs all the help it can get. But one team has already scored: the Los Angeles Galaxy (so many sports, so few good names) has its first star, ANDREW SHUE. The Melrose Place naive turned conniver has signed a one-year deal to play midfield. "Two years ago, I let it be known I was interested in playing in a pro league," says Shue. "I've been training for the past six months." This isn't his first pro soccer gig; he played...
...Dole has been intimately involved with Social Security for two decades and has shown considerable courage. In 1985 he had the guts and skill to steer through the Senate a one-year elimination of cost-of-living increases, a deficit-reduction measure later blamed for the G.O.P.'s loss of the Senate in 1986. Yet last summer, when I asked him if leadership didn't demand that he at least remind seniors that they get far more out of Social Security than they pay in, Dole said, "I'm not gonna tell them that. There's something called suicide...