Word: drinkers
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...meantime, I'll try to teach her by my own abstinent example and take solace in not having lied about my own youth--which surely she'll have heard about by then (possibly from her mother or her grandma). If I'd been a less spectacular drinker, I might be able to rewrite my past, but I'm afraid that, like the President, I already blew that gambit. All that's left is to be forthright, more or less, and steel myself against charges of hypocrisy by remembering that my warnings come from love, not a desire to look better...
...d?j? vu about the frenzied speculation concerning the identity and character of this alleged Kim. For years, North Korea-watchers have engaged in the same kind of tea-leaf reading about Kim Jong Il. Before he ascended to the throne, he was reported to be a womanizer, big drinker and pornography freak. But North Korea is so cut off from the rest of the world and information in the country is so tightly controlled that no one really knows for sure what this dynasty is like. "If you talk about Kim Jong Il or his family, you're dead," says...
...Lawrence Fox, partner at Drinker, Biddle, and Reath in Philadelphia and chair of the American Bar Assocation Death Penalty Representation Project, which provides death row defendants with counsel...
...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...