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Outside is one of the post's main tourist attractions: Clay Henry, a beer- drinking goat whose pen abuts the shaded porch. A boozer of 14 years' standing, Clay Henry picks up an opened can or bottle in his mouth and downs the contents in seconds. "He has drunk as much as 24 cans in a single day," says Linda Garcia, a clerk at the post. CLAY HENRY FOR MAYOR, reads a sign on the fridge that holds the beer...
Monday, 7--Surprise Presidential frontrunner Waylon T. Pickens announces his withdrawal from the race following his arraignment on manslaughter charges. Pickens, who has campaigned from his front porch, was trimming his hedges with a Stanley power tool when he inadvertently decapitated a Miami Herald reporter...
...nominations focus on English boys growing up during World War II. In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, a lad gets shanghaied into maturity at the cost of his old principles; in John Boorman's Hope and Glory, a boy finds German fire bombs virtually on his front porch. Neither child would fit comfortably into a Hollywood idyll, past or present, where kids are expected to have reality-resistant minds and hang out forever at the soda fountain of youth...
...have sharply criticized the police for using their guns too readily. In 1986 Dallas ranked first among the nation's eleven largest cities in the per capita incidence of police shootings (30, with ten deaths). Such controversial killings, including the shooting of an elderly black woman on her front porch, prompted congressional hearings last year...
...turns out to be a madonna, 3 ft. high -- perfect for a porch in Hoboken, N.J., perhaps, but maybe a little out of place dressing up a Shenandoah Valley farmer's front yard. The farmer looks around for a few minutes, then asks, "How about if I take that deer over there and pay you the difference?" The animal in question is a buck, 4 ft. high, with a brown paint job and an impressive rack of gleaming metal antlers. "That'd be fine," says Harper. He calls his sons Doug and Dale and son-in-law Russell Armentrout...