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...really give a shit. All they want to know is how they can use it against you.” There was never any drinking—at all. “I will not play if I had one sip of alcohol. But people do drugs. Coke is popular. If a guy’s been up 30 hours, he might need a stimulant...
...time of evening rush hour never would have known it though. There she was, sitting in front of Au Bu Pain like many other college girls—flanked by three of her girlfriends, catching up on midweek gossip with pauses for the occasional giggle or sip of Diet Coke. The way she focused her round, dark eyes on the girls as they spoke might have made it seem like their individual woes about frigid Harvard boys were the only things running through her mind. But as she sat back for a moment and talked about her schedule, it became...
...Another break. I drink a Coke solely for the caffeine burst. In the next scene I am a golfer walking in the background behind the central actors. I put on my khakis and polo shirt. Luckily, I have some caddying experience so I can carry a golf bag and look like I know what I’m doing...
...shabby city of Agra. From afar, the Taj Mahal is as beautiful as the poets promise--a glowing tribute to obsessive adoration and a symbol of India around the world. But up close, the picture begins to crumble. Acid rain and condensation from the former Mughal capital's coke-fueled factories and, environmentalists say, a nearby oil refinery are eating away the marble and turning what remains the color of unloved teeth. The famous canals and watercourses stink. Garbage abounds. And attempts at preservation have proved ineffective, clumsy and lacking in either funds or purpose...
...global forum on racism and its remedies was never going to be a buy-the-world-a-Coke lovefest, but it's in danger of descending into a deeply weird Tower of Babel experience. Even the Middle East conflict, which has come to dominate the spotlight at the U.N.-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, produces its own strangely dissonant images: Hasidic Jews from New York bearing placards proclaiming that "Zionism equals Anti-Semitism," or Mary Robinson, the U.N.'s Irish Catholic human rights commissioner proclaiming that when she sees vicious anti-Semitic slurs, "I am a Jew." (Sorry, Mary...