Word: drinking
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...often forget that Socrates was more than a philosopher. He was also an honored warrior and a prolific drinker. It is said that when he drank with his friends, Socrates would stand like a stone as they passed by the way. That is to say, he would drink them under the table without ever faltering himself. An impressive feat, to be sure...
Nothing is more evident of this phenomenon than the death of a fraternity pledge at Louisiana State University earlier this month. After Rush Week, the fraternity members and the new pledges began drinking. Heavily. At these events, phrases like "Here's a fifth, drink it" pop up frequently. After an afternoon and evening of such drinking, a new pledge (and several others) passed out in the fraternity house. Thinking that they had simply had a little much, the other members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon let them lie there. Only after several hours did they take the unconscious members...
What makes the situation even worse, however, are laws regulating alcohol. Ill-conceived and ill-enforced, these laws nod and wink at kids, encouraging them not only to drink (which wouldn't be so bad), but also encouraging them to drink recklessly...
...never dated; she used to go out with friends in groups," says Herbert. "At parties," says Janson, "she liked Pimm's [a gin-based specialty drink], and she'd stand in the corner with all the rest of the girls, and all the boys would stand at the other end of the room." It was at about this time that she met her future husband. "Prince Charles was the first man she dated," says Herbert. "She was very much head over heels in love...
...last saw BRANDON TARTIKOFF in June, when we met for a drink in Los Angeles. He had just come through a brutal series of chemotherapy sessions (battling a recurrence of the cancer that had first struck him when he was 23), but was eager to do what he always loved--talk about TV. Walking into the bar of the Four Seasons Hotel, he looked gaunt and thin, a baseball cap covering his bald head. It took real guts to show up at this sybaritic show-biz haunt so boldly announcing his illness. But for Tartikoff, it was a statement...