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...George W. Bush's early-to-bed routine began no doubt at the same time as his sobriety. The recovering drinker needs to give his life an architecture of clarity, of regularity, of sturdy daylight. He forswears the exhausting and hallucinatory nighttime, the theater of his former misadventures, the time that used to get him into trouble...
...been snuffed out by Babylonia in 586 B.C. (see box page 52). Within 50 years, Jews had begun rebuilding, but full glory awaited the rule, from 37 B.C. to 4 B.C., of Herod the Great. Herod is one of ancient history's extraordinary figures. Ten times married, a serious drinker and a half-Jew who was half-trusted by his subjects, he played the superpower politics of his day consummately. In 63 B.C., Rome became Judea's ruler, succeeding Babylonia, Persia, Greece and the Jews themselves. Herod, who hailed from the neighboring province of Idumea (which included part of today...
HARD-PRESSED The world is rich with wine snobs, but there is a niche of connoisseurship still underpopulated: the anti-snob. The industry is now catering to the downmarket drinker. Need to know about price or what to drink with steak or fish? No need to consult a guide; just look at the label. And you won't strain your budget. All these wines are under...
...academic burdens and summer job stresses, and sometimes the weight of the world does seem to be pressing rather heavily on my spindly Anglo-Saxon shoulders. But no matter what happens, I've always got something to put a spring in my step. You see, I'm a binge drinker...
...then, in the pages of The Crimson, I read with mounting amazement that one can qualify as a "binge drinker" if one has, not eight or 18 or 28, but a scant five drinks in a single night. Forty-six percent of Harvard students, the study reported, make the cut--myself included. And 12 percent have the temerity to binge drink frequently--more than twice every two weeks, if you can imagine...