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...Harp, Carlsberg and Budweiser. Over the years, it’s been rationed to pregnant women, offered to blood donors and likened to mothers’ milk. For me, it was the first alcoholic drink with any appeal. Dark as chocolate with a creamy head and a bitter, coffee-like taste... It was love from first...
...matter how the talks turn out, the kind of bitter medicine the protocol prescribes, with the U.S. taking the biggest slug, did not go down well in Washington even before Bush arrived. In 1997 the Senate, which must ratify treaties, voted 95 to 0 that no global-warming pact that came before it would be okayed unless it treated developed and developing countries equally. Such a repudiation is one more argument the Administration is using to pull the plug on Kyoto--though it was more than mere conscience that was probably driving the Senate. One of the resolution's sponsors...
...once knew a man who was a heroic drunk. He left mess and destruction in his wake - broken glasses, smashed furniture, bounced checks, bitter and exhausted wives. His motto, which he stole from the British classicist Benjamin Jowett, was a line he would slur grandly to the barroom after 10 or 12 drinks: "Never apologize! Never explain...
Temple, for example, rehired philosopher Barrows Dunham 28 years after it dismissed him for refusing to identify his associates in the Communist Party to a Congressional committee. At the time, Temple president Marvin Wachman said the reappointment removed “a painful vestige of McCarthyism, that sad and bitter period in our national history...
Cuffy, 35, had attracted police attention long before the Sunday shoot-out. He had been deputy to Sidney Dorsey, the sheriff whom Derwin Brown defeated in a bitter fight last year. (Cuffy was also employed by Dorsey's private security firm.) Once, during the campaign, Brown told aides he had seen Cuffy lurking in a dark SUV, shadowing him as he discussed corruption in the DeKalb jail with a county official. Cuffy was one of 38 employees that the reform-minded Brown planned to fire once he took office. Cuffy had doubled his take-home...