Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hussein Kamel: On that occasion Uday was also drunk. President Saddam's valet was seated close to Uday at a party. The valet got into an argument with one of Uday's security guards. Uday hit the valet with a club, and the man died...
...complaining, and I cannot remember the incident. I'd like to be of more help to the Ethics Committee, but I just have no memory," he says. "I think part of the reason--you can see it in the depositions of the women--is that I was drunk. That is not an excuse for conduct, but it probably may account for loss of memory." The Senator said he has not had a drink for three years. He criticizes the media for not investigating the accusers and notes that most of the incidents happened more than a dozen years...
...band of anarchists from Pittsfield, Maine bemoaned the fact that you can't enter Canada if you've recently been convicted of driving drunk, After discovering that I was a Harvard student, a man in a straw hat revealed to me that he was the great -great nephew of the father and son responsible for creating the University's world-famous glass flowers collection...
...meetings everywhere--in church basements, on campuses and in hospitals and prisons--certain basic principles hold. Under a cloak of strict anonymity the "drunk," to use a popular A.A. word, often admits his alcoholism before the group, acknowledging that alcoholism is a disease for which abstinence is the only answer. Most adherents also believe they will never recover but instead will always be "in recovery." Though many who feel they have been saved by A.A. cannot explain exactly how or why it works, they do believe they stay sober by helping others stay sober...
...anything to get your attention. It's friendly but still has teeth, like The Prince of Tides with its theme of family violence barely concealed in Southern blarney. Beach Music's Jack McCall has his own troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends are also conspicuously memorable: a former beauty queen who writes film scripts, the grandson of a Jewish store owner who becomes a Hollywood...