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...reality, I don’t think being a college drunkard actually justifies the making of an “alter ego,” per se. Nevertheless, friends insist that I have another side of me, someone whom they endearingly refer to as “Dirty Cathy.” I won’t get into who “she” is or what “she” does. I’ll just say the name, as obscene as it may sound, never ceases to haunt...
...years ago, wine in Asia tended to refer to dusty bottles of Mateus Rosé or Liebfraumilch, decaying at the backs of corner stores and wedged between the boxes of mosquito coils and the tins of evaporated milk. How times change. Today the wine world's great hope is the Asian drinker, for many of whom the consumption of grape wine is an aspirational and pleasurably exotic activity, much like sake drinking is in European or American cocktail bars. Facing stagnant sales at home, the Old World's lordliest vintners must leave their crumbling châteaus...
...when I look around me in the dining hall, I definitely don’t see too many “men” present, and when I walk past the Women’s Center, I’m not sure the label is referring to me. For my male peers, there is the convenient label of “guy,” a term that is delightfully versatile enough to span the gap between boy and man and yet narrow enough to distinguish final club members from say, a tenured professor. There doesn’t seem...
...only in retirement that these pressures of fundraising and limited time in Washington tend to fall away, finally giving public servants new opportunities to actually do the work they wanted to do when they sought election in the first place. Domenici says he finds it funny that people refer to the U.S. Senate as a "most exclusive club." "It's a strange club," he jokes, "if people don't get together...
...make it much more likely that if I'm a cardiologist or general practitioner and I have an affluent or celebrity client who has a problem with drugs or alcohol, or it has turned into a drug or alcohol problem, then I'd be much more likely to refer them than to manage them in my office. It's going to make people much more cautious about the potential risks, and that's a good thing. People shouldn't get worse care just because they're famous. That's clearly the concern here. By virtue of his incredible wealth...