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...court, 6 to 3, upheld a Brookfield, Wis., city ordinance that forbids picketing of individual residences. Writing for the majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the law, which was passed after right-to-life demonstrators began picketing the home of a physician who performs abortions, serves the significant Government interest of protecting residential privacy. But at the same time, O'Connor distinguished the ordinance from a prohibition against "general marching through the neighborhood." The antiabortion group has vowed to do just that...
...their interest payments by the end of the loan are less than half those of a 30-year mortgage holder. Finally, many young homeowners are simply skittish about taking on debt. Neil and Sue Younkin seven months ago took out a 15-year mortgage to buy their house in Brookfield, Ill. Says Sue, 25, sounding as risk-averse as any survivor of the Great Depression: "I don't like being in debt. The sooner you own free and clear, the better...
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...sound a vehicle makes as it drops into the mud is a kind of ominous smush. Some people find it so depressing that they try to avoid mud season altogether. Jackie and Al Wilder, who run the Fork Shop Restaurant in Brookfield, closed up in March and went all the way to Europe. "Nobody can get to us over the mud anyway," says Al. They came home expecting tulips and sunshine and found instead all the pipes in their house frozen. It's not nice to avoid Mother Nature...