Word: coking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cruising down an unnamed tributary of the Mekong River, about 80 miles south of Saigon. I was thankful the rickety raft’s single engine drowned out her voice: She kept complaining about Vietnam’s Third World status, evidenced, she thought, by its lack of Diet Coke. I got here by accepting a Let’s Go job backpacking through Borneo and the Philippines. My reward for completing the itinerary was an open-ended airline ticket. I came seeking to confirm my mother’s stories, to see where my father had fought during...
...Harvard-Yale game two years ago, five guys came in wearing Harvard shirts and trying to conceal five entire cases of beer. The underage ones always want to drink with the other people here. Sometimes we’ll catch them pouring the contents of a flask into their Coke bottles...
...handers’ occupation of all the left-handed desks in Emerson 105. “The desks are less comfortable for them. Why do the righties sit there? Arrgh!”...Does anyone have a quarter? Will C. Benstein ’03 wants to get a Coke...
...same place. Why the man on the corner asked me for spare change, and when I said I didn’t have any, he said to call him on his cell when I did. Why fat people order five buckets of chicken and a Diet Coke. Why skydivers bother wearing helmets. Why all the people that sing in the subway have...
Rory, 13, who plays Gibson's son in the sci-fi blockbuster Signs, sits down for lunch at a fancy Manhattan restaurant and promptly chugs a can of Red Bull energy drink. He then asks his mother to leave, sticks the lemon wedge from her Coke in his mouth and assumes an amiable but bored expression. Interviews, he makes clear, are not scary. Not much seems to intimidate Rory, including his brothers' careers. He says it's a nonissue that they're in the same business: "We don't talk about it. We talk like any other brothers would...