Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest hits (Drunken Master, Project A, Police Story, The Armour of God) and their sequels, Chan has scooted across burning coals, eaten red-hot chili peppers, swallowed industrial alcohol. He has bounced down a hill inside a giant beach ball and leaped from a mountaintop onto a passing hot-air balloon. As weapons he has used bicycles, rickshas, chairs, plates, a hat rack, a ketchup dispenser, overhead fans and Chinese folding fans. Bad guys have depantsed him, strapped a ton of tnt to his body, doused and scalded him, set him afire, dumped him down a well, hanged him naked...
Yeltsin may be a drunken bully; I've never liked him. But in Chechnya, it seems to me, he's only doing what President Lincoln did when the U.S.'s Southern states tried to secede. The bombing of Grozny reminds me of the severe hardships that civilians had to endure during the Civil War. Many women, children and old folks suffered terribly. Couldn't be helped then; can't be helped now. There's no more reason to let autonomous areas secede from the Russian Federation than there was to let 11 states secede from the Union...
...unreformed communists and neofascists in Russia, President Boris + Yeltsin is a "drunken swine" who should be tested for dipsomania. That sneering dismissal is too crude for the more mainstream politicians. They argue instead that he is isolated in the Kremlin, is badly misinformed and is falling under the sway of a "war party" of military and security officials. Other critics go further, speculating that Yeltsin is scheming to declare a state of emergency, cancel the 1996 presidential elections and rule by decree...
...sexual discrimination in the agency, which prompted 100 female case officers to threaten a class-action lawsuit. The CIA recently settled for $410,000 a suit by a senior female officer who charged that she was harassed by its old-boy network after she exposed carousing, wife beating and drunken behavior among male officers in the agency's Jamaica station. During his tenure, Woolsey worked to promote more women into the upper ranks...
...students at 140 campuses, the researchers declared that nearly half of collegians are binge drinkers who cause all sorts of trouble, from vandalism to attacks on classmates. At the schools where drinking was most popular, more than two- thirds of students had had their sleep or study interrupted by drunken peers. More than half had been forced to care for an inebriated friend, and at least a fourth had suffered an unwanted sexual advance. Alcohol plays a role in 90% of rapes and almost all violent crime on campus...