Word: scotches
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...Harvard’s ban on chalk—the stuff of hop-scotch and four-square—is an anachronistic attempt to preserve a nonexistent dream of a pristine Yard. Let’s let that attempt cede to a dream of a campus environment teeming with messages. The power of the pen and the power of the chalk stub are not so far apart...
...anecdote-rich chronicle of his life and career, a newsman's perspective on major events in recent Chinese history - from the Cultural Revolution to the launch of China's economic transformation - and an encomium to his adopted home, Hong Kong. Sinclair and tales of drinking go together like Scotch and a beer chaser, and passages of Tell Me a Story also document his struggles with alcohol, which lent poetry to his reputation yet almost certainly contributed to the old lion's final vanquishment by cancer last month at the age of 64. Viewing him through posterity's filter...
...anyone with a taste for history--or taste at all--might do better trolling the auction houses this month, where once-in-a-lifetime shopping opportunities abound. In the first liquor auction since Prohibition at Christie's in Manhattan, a 1926 single-malt Macallan scotch went for $54,000; that's more than $2,000 per oz. (30 mL). Elsewhere, a lock of John Lennon's hair brought $48,000, but Marie Antoinette's pearls and Orson Welles' Oscar are still available, both having failed to reach their minimum bids...
...find common ground in their shared hatred of Staples (or “Shtooples,” depending on the mood of the entry), their penchant for personal loss, and their unshakable self-loathing. The journal also features excerpts from Roger’s incubating debut meta-novel, the Scotch-soaked “Glove Pond.”The narrative style smacks of a sarcastic take on Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” all the way up to the discussion of one of the characters’ (totally unnecessary) attempt...
...screams when things don't suit him, but then so do I,"said Bob Livingston, a former Republican Speaker of the House who chaired the committee from 1995-1998. When the G.O.P. took control of Congress in 1994, Obey - as outgoing chairman - left Livingston a big bottle of Scotch in the desk drawer and a note that read "Best Wishes on an Outstanding Chairmanship." The gesture was indicative of how bipartisan the committee has been and remains to this...