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...side. "No, it has less alcohol, because it is a natural product," one said. "It's fresh," added Igor, the one man among them, as if that settled the dispute. Igor, denying that Hooch is just a "women's drink," said that he drinks it because it keeps his breath fresh. "When I'm going to kiss a girl, I have bad breath if I've been drinking beer," he said...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Bottoms Up! | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...world just became an equal opportunity employer. Queen Elizabeth II agreed Friday that the British throne should pass to the eldest child, regardless of sex -- sweeping aside the millenia-old tradition of primogeniture, in which sons always get first claim on the crown. Princes Charles and William can breath easy, because this makes no change to the line of succession -- they're both firstborn anyway. What this does do, however, is slap a huge royal seal on efforts to modernise the monarchy in the wake of Diana's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thoroughly Modern Monarchy | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

After 10 days at her father's home in Los Angeles, Monica Lewinsky flew back to Washington last week. And Washington, which was trying hard to care about Iraq, the budget surplus and the tobacco deal, held its breath. All week the legal and political pageantry in That Story favored the President, at least in public. The spectacle of independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr's putting the screws to Lewinsky's mother, followed by the subpoenas to Secret Service agents, helped consolidate the White House spin that Starr's investigation is a full-speed, partisan vendetta. But the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up The Heat | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...date, if you hold your flowers behind your back and then take them out when she opens the door, she recognizes this as the international sign for "Hey, I remembered flowers, but I'm still a dork." If you arrive 10 minutes late and out of breath, this is the International Sign for "I live in the Quad, and you live in the River. On a Saturday night I might as well try to teleport as find a shuttle." If you arrive and she says, "I just have to finish some e-mail before we go," this is the verbal...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: The Universal Language | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...certain passage may look studious, but it's actually the International Sign for "I have less than zero clue, in fact negative clue, what everyone is talking about and I am just buying time. Is this the right room?" Clasping your hands around your neck and gasping for breath in section still means "I am choking...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: The Universal Language | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

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