Word: cocktailing
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...Yunnan province want when they get there? To a new generation of local and expatriate entrepreneurs, the answer is drink-and cafés and bars are everywhere. In the highly improbable surroundings of Zhongdian's old quarter-known in Tibetan as Dukezong-there are now some 25 cocktail bars...
...that kind of juxtaposition is precisely the charm of Zhongdian's cocktail circuit. With steep, cobbled lanes, wooden houses, courtyards and prayer flags fluttering in the wind, Dukezong was little more than a ramshackle residential area of 15,000 inhabitants two years ago. Now, it's being buffed and polished for the outside world, with B-52 cocktails served alongside bai jiu-the local firewater-and macchiatos almost as readily available as yak-butter tea. The bars attract a lively, mixed crowd of residents, young travelers, artists and adventurers, doubtless hoping to find their own Shangri-La. Chances are they...
...qualify." Said Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank where Bolton once worked: "This is not the outrage of sincere grownups over the malfeasance of a senior executive. John is not about making the world safe for cocktail parties...
...Make that good, too, for lunchtime diners, intrepid swimmers, artists, cocktail kings?heck, everybody...
...would, I think, be paralyzed by the knowledge that we are hanging out with a given group of people for the last time, that we are attending our last sweaty room party, that we have heard our last painfully moronic section discussion. Nostalgia and regret make a deadly cocktail. Over beers Friday night, a roommate and I lamented how quickly time seemed to be slipping away from us, lamented the time lost sleeping when each of our remaining hours seems precious. And then—for what will, with any luck, not be the last time—we went...