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...several months. He has largely recovered from a 1996 assassination attempt that has left him barely able to walk. Though he is still a feared man, he has clearly been eclipsed by Qusay, 36. Qusay, say observers in Baghdad and Washington, is a force to be reckoned with. Sober, hardworking and deferential to his father, he is considered as cruel and ruthless as Saddam, though lacking his father's charisma. He never appears in public, but his accumulating strength is evident. He has been "elected" to a leading position in the Baath Party...
...million copies and earned her three of her nine Grammys. But she has just released the eclectic and rollicking new album, Silver Lining, her 16th, and is out on the road, where she loves to be even after 30 years of touring. At 52, she's fit and proudly sober, having quit a drinking habit 15 years ago. "I love being unburdened by the need to prove yourself, by patterns that held you back," she says. "I don't want to sound arrogant, but I feel like I'm at the height of my powers. It's a surprise...
...mean, I’m not asking for an award or anything, but I think you should all appreciate just a little that this is the first time I’ve come to section sober...
...guys. In a corporate culture in which deals are often closed over multiple martinis or glasses of Merlot, the lone sipper of club soda risks looking like a latter-day Carrie Nation. And while the feminist foremothers aimed to make men more like women--nicer, that is, and sober--today's alpha gals aspire to resemble the men, warts and hangovers included...
...takes the girl to a motel to sober up and that starts a fractious relationship. Jeon's character goes through more mood swings than there are versions of Microsoft's operating system, and the hapless Gyun has to absorb them all. She drinks to oblivion, slaps him around, makes him exchange his sneakers for her high-heeled shoes as they walk through the park. It turns out she's still grieving over a previous relationship; Gyun guesses at what haunts her, but can't fully understand...