Word: drinking
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...middle of the yurt in the middle of the desert." Though Kaplan enjoyed his stay, being the affable guest can take a toll. "You're not sure all the time what you're eating," he says. "You're up late, and the host always wants you to drink far too much. So it gets a little draining...
Although Vest emphasized that drinking at MIT was less prevalent than at other campuses,--students binge drink at about half the national average of 44 percent--there is still a fatal potential...
QUENTIN TARANTINO learned an important lesson last week: Don't drink and talk race. The feisty director got into a discussion with an African-American acquaintance, Barron Claiborne, about whether there are "black features." At one point Tarantino put two fingers in his nostrils to refer to the shape of some black people's noses. Later, after more drinking, Claiborne "comes and stands over me, which is something you don't do to another man," the director told Howard Stern. "He starts it all up again." Tarantino told the guy to get out of his face. "And then our friend...
...spirit of the principle of separation of church and state. While laws requiring once-a-week shop closings in general might serve the nominally secular purpose of providing a day of rest (an aim sanctioned by the Supreme Court), the alcohol law imparts a specific religious judgement about drinking on Sundays which the state is in no position to make. Those who wish to observe the Sabbath by not drinking alcohol are free to do so but don't need the state's sanction and shouldn't be allowed to deprive others of the right to drink...
Blumenthal said his remarks were based on a New Yorker article. The article suggested that Ewing prosecutes "with a presumption of guilt" and believes religion is a motivating factor in his life. It also described Ewing as a "born-again" Christian who prays daily and does not drink...