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...Cops in Shops" program is underhanded. Police officers pose as store clerks, shelf-stockers and customers while waiting for an underage person to attempt an alcohol purchase. The idea of undercover police officers camping out in convenience stores is disturbing in and of itself. Further, rather than identifying fake ID's and making their arrests based on that offense alone, the cops allow the illegal purchase of alcohol to take place so that they can tack on further charges. This seems to serve no purpose other than increasing the severity of the punishment that victims of the sting receive...
...repairman before the problem was solved. She and Rice learned that there was no fine dining in the area, and that cooking well for guests meant packing in provisions from Cincinnati or Columbus. When Dahl went to the local grocery and asked for pasta, she was directed to a shelf of boxed macaroni and cheese. (Demand has since improved the selection.) When she asked for arugula, she was told to grow it. That had been her plan, but first she and Rice had a few things to learn about horticulture...
...Loyal Mountains) seems to get categorized as good-with-an-asterisk. He's regional. (So was Wallace Stegner, of course, until he became a national monument.) Bass may reach monument or even wilderness-area status in time, but for the moment he gathers honorable obscurity, and blackflies, on the shelf reserved for nature writers...
According to Murphy, undercover police officers may pose as liquor store clerks, shelf stockers or customers...
...that has changed. "The funny thing is," Damon told me last week, "that as soon as you get big, the studios send you these scripts that they've been trying to get made for 20 years, that were originally written for Dustin Hoffman. They've been sitting on the shelf. You get their old standbys." What he didn't mention is that the roles also come with $2 million offers...