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...live in the world of overachievers, nor did he view alcoholism as something to be overcome. O'Brien wrote fiction, but his tales of the bottle are intensely biographical. Like the washed-up screenwriter Ben in Leaving Las Vegas, he lost jobs because he couldn't stay sober. He too had intended to drink himself to death but in 1994, at age 33, committed suicide more expediently with a gun. For O'Brien and his characters, drinking is a way of life and death, an unextinguishable passion--beyond love and any trace of reason it accords--that must be succumbed...
...Pascagoula shipyard worker, Lott, 54, has served as his party's whip, or top vote counter, for 10 of the past 15 years, first in the House and then in the Senate. His victory last week marked the triumph in the usually sober Senate of the breed of young, brash and very conservative Republican that took over the House when Newt Gingrich swept the G.O.P. to power in 1994. Lott is a supply-side tax cutter and a fervent deregulator, though his enthusiasm for deficit reduction withers when it comes to Pentagon pork, which he adroitly delivers to his home...
Rather than reeling with the excitement of rebelling against the older generation, students today are much more sober about the problems, Smith says...
...morning after the speech, Dole opened the Senate (old habits die hard), then lit out for the territory--first stop, Chicago. He boarded the plane in his Senate uniform, dark suit, starched white shirt, sober tie, and then--Honey, get me wardrobe!--emerged in Chicago in khakis and open-neck shirt. "Quick-change artist," Dole quipped. Clothes make the new man. It was Bob Dole, Unplugged and Untied...
...resident of Washington, I don't know and I don't care if Marion Barry has reverted to his old habits of drinking and drugging. Stoned or sober, he is an embarrassment to the city and a hindrance to African Americans. He ought to do us all a favor and retire to private life...