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...Post that he didn't know if he would have recommended going to war had he known then that there were no stockpiles of weapons after all, the White House had no choice but to speak out--and fast. Bush allies widely believe that Powell, never a Kool-Aid drinker, has one foot out the door and is polishing his credentials accordingly. "The Powellites think Bush is going to lose the election, and they think he's going to lose because of the war that they opposed," a Bush loyalist says. "They want to win the ideological contest." But whatever...
...says. "If they're not, they're lying. People are cringing." Some soldiers have turned to God. Whiteside reads Scripture and recites the Lord's Prayer before leaving the gates. On the day of Colgan's death, Kamont, a lapsed Baptist who admits to once having been a heavy drinker, flew back to Germany on home leave and told his wife he wants their 2-year-old daughter to grow up in a religious household. "When something like this happens," he says, "you need to have someone to pray...
...office in the future, they might go after me like they went after Bush—the whole cocaine thing. No, I’m actually kind of a homebody. I play cards with friends, play Scrabble. I’m not quite as big a drinker as Rohit—he’s just shy of being an alcoholic. But playing Monopoly when you’re stoned —whoa, that’s the stuff. Luxury tax, 10 percent, you don’t know what is going...
...process. According to Vitale, in order to produce vodka, pure alcohol and treated water are mixed. Then it is finished with charcoal filters and activated carbon. The three most important steps are mixing, treating and proofing. The latter is a very delicate operation because, as any vodka drinker knows, the proof determines the alcohol content—for instance, 80 proof is 40 percent alcohol. After the filtering, the substance is shipped over to the bottling tank. The entire process takes about 4 hours. A total of about 100 gallons are produced a month, and distributed all over the Northeast...
DIED. WARREN ZEVON, 56, morbidly witty rock-'n'-roll poet; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. A reformed hard drinker whose vivid musical tales were likened to mini-screenplays, Zevon first made a splash with the 1978 album Excitable Boy, featuring a novelty hit, Werewolves of London, about beasts who mutilate old ladies and then drink pina coladas at Trader Vic's. He went on to show his skill at tender ballads, true-crime tales and bluesy odes to doom and death in more than a dozen albums. After he went public with his cancer diagnosis last year, he produced...