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Bush, his friends say, was not the heaviest drinker on campus. He "wasn't a teetotaler and he wasn't a lush," says his roommate of four years, Robert Deeter...
...while in theory, an underage drinker can drink responsibly, just as it is possible for a legal drinker to drink irresponsibly, the College's zero-tolerance policy is designed to prevent both abusive and underage drinking...
This reaction of the frequent binge drinker is shared by the International Center for Alcohol Policies, which describes itself as "supported by eleven international beverage alcohol companies." A report of this center refers to a ten-drink measure of dangerous drinking in contrast to our five-drink measure. That's one way to drastically reduce the size of the college alcohol problem: define it out of existence...
...zone of privacy, don't fall into the trap of trying to prove a negative. The problem is that Bush went about his nondisclosure selectively. In a political age when biography is destiny, Bush has not exactly clammed up on personal matters, detailing over time his history as a drinker, his religious conversion, his fidelity to his wife Laura. It amounts to saying that when it comes to electing a President, it is relevant whether he ever committed adultery but not whether he ever committed a felony...
Susan Cheever, a novelist and memoirist, is the author of Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker...