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...would not provide an "appropriate return" for shareholders. Yet le patron remained unperturbed. Three years ago, the company leveraged itself heavily to acquire Britain's Allied Domecq, a $13 billion deal that doubled Pernod Ricard's size at a stroke and added such brands as Beefeater gin, Ballantine's whisky and Mumm sparkling wines to the company's drinks cabinet. But the debt was speedily reduced to manageable levels, allowing Pernod Ricard to hit the M&A trail again. The changed economic outlook in the U.S.--the world's largest and most lucrative drinks market and Absolut's biggest--will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stiff Drink | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...Those halcyon days of my sophomore year, replete with plastic gallon bottles of Cossack gin in the Junior Common Room, will soon go the way of Lobster Night, House pride, and Allston residents. In their stead, undergrads will get long nights of nursing Natty Ice and making awkward small talk with creepy graduate students—euphemistically styled “Beverage Authorization Teams”—who will soon be a mandatory part of every tea social on campus...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Shaken, Not Stirred | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

...embarrassing to frantically wave around glow sticks (the hosts distributed about 500 of them) in desperate effort to keep the beat: Harvard students are not particularly graceful with their bodies. But Friday night’s attendees are to be commended for their willingness to disregard the gin-soaked naysayers and let down their hair. At the very least, the Underground Rave is proof positive that proper dancing rivals any drunk. Steven A. Franklin ’10 counts himself among the converted. The rave was not his typical scene; that usually involves some combination of Pizza Ring...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Last Night a DJ Saved Our Lives | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...every good idea, there's a failure. The horseradish juice still sucked. The test tubes alongside it, however, contained fennel juice. And the fennel-lemon-gin drink he made with it was the best cocktail I've ever had. "That is sexy!" Arnold yelled, smiling gap-toothedly at the test tube of clear liquid. "That's some sexy fennel juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Scientist in the Kitchen | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

Students seeking a nip of gin or an advertised party will have to look outside Harvard’s 12 undergraduate Houses after administrators presented a new standard alcohol policy for the College yesterday...

Author: By Abby D. Phillip and Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: College Tightens Alcohol Restrictions | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

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