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Moderation, however, is not easily defined. It cannot be defined in terms of action or behavior on the part of the drinker, as Wechsler advocates, because the students who are adversely affected by drunkards perceive the extent of the harm in different ways. For example, a student who has never encountered drinking before may be more appalled at having to clean up after his roommate than a student who looked after her siblings when they drank during high school. Since students come from different backgrounds, it is logical that there exists a gap in student's perceptions of the degree...
...WOMAN SHOWS GO, UTAH CONGRESSWOMAN Enid Waldholtz's five-hour press conference last week will be hard to top. She borrowed heavily from past performers--Richard Nixon (my mother was "a saint"), Mayor Marion Barry (the "bitch set me up") and Senator Bob Packwood ("I was a binge drinker")--and fashioned her own revue. Her wealthy father, "the finest man I know," inconveniently remembers the $2 million that went to her 1994 campaign as a loan (there is a $1,000 limit), but that's because his memory is not so good. Anyone would have been fooled by Joe Waldholtz...
...know that disciplinary action will result if you serve an underage drinker, but bringing a student to UHS shouldn't cause that," says Hillis. ADD is a student-run UHS committee that aims to inform students about alcohol-related issues...
...tribal elders in a bar, he writes, "The three older men looked like the frail members of a government in exile, deeply versed in the politics of failure." Of a newly alcoholic reporter who covers the killings, McNamee observes, "He had somehow acquired the psychic credentials of the drinker, the sad, proclaiming spirit." There is an eerie exactness in these passages that pins meaning to the wall with a knife blade. Now and then, as in his evocation of a mother's "low-keyed and costly cries of love," his reach for the stinging, pivotal word--that "costly" fails...
Even in the diaries' early entries, the virtues and defects of this lifelong enterprise are apparent. Ellis has always been candid about his own weaknesses--among other things, he was a troubled binge drinker. His plain Joe prose is enlivened by boundless curiosity, a wry sense of humor and a falcon-sharp eye for detail. At a hearing conducted by red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy, for example, Ellis observed: "McCarthy has the slim hips of an athlete, a thick trunk and shoulders like a buffalo. Almost lacking a neck, his huge head seems perched on his shoulders. His mouth...