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...banqueted with Kim and a group of grumpy old men, with faces like Christmas walnuts ... We were served much better Burgundy than we would have drunk in Brussels. Outside, the people starved." CHRIS PATTEN, former Hong Kong Governor and E.U. Commissioner for External Affairs, recounting a meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Il in his new book, Not Quite the Diplomat. Patten also dished on other world leaders, saying that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was "not a democrat" and calling French President Jacques Chirac "ignorantly hostile to reform...
Crawford’s easy, conversational style is immediately appealing. His lighthearted accounts of befriending a homeless Iraqi child, riding a stolen motorcycle, and getting drunk on the fourth of July make the war seem almost fun, almost like normal life. With all this time for goofing around, it can’t be all that...
...promised we wouldn’t have two non-alcoholic drinks in a row, but we lied. We were drunk when we wrote last week’s anyway...
...hard on its side. Suddenly superstitious, they never wrote anything down again. They told me this as we walked toward an outdoor café in New Orleans’ French Quarter, ruled at the time by a bizarre economic love triangle. Tourists shared the space equally with the homeless, drunk, and destitute, who entertained them to get by; meanwhile, dozens of missionaries in bright orange shirts roamed the streets, handing out hygiene packets to the homeless, and occasionally looking at bead-festooned tourists like they’d be happy to say a prayer for them...
...Sophie Noero as she emerged from a night of scorpion bowls at the Hong Kong. “Need any help?” he asked from his patrol car. The Tulane senior asked him to turn on his light, play some music, and let her dance. She was drunk and having fun even though the Kong was nothing like The Boot, a New Orleans bar where she had spent so many similar nights before the hurricane...