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This is not to say that having fun while sober is impossible. It is just a greater challenge to do so on this campus than elsewhere. We can't advocate a movement toward a campus of lushes, but we can admit that drinking can be pleasurable and that many students are much more fun to be with when within the range of tipsy to a bit intoxicated...
Even in her generally sober critique of Clinton, Tobin has to drag in the unrelated offenses of Newt Gingrich. In an indictment of all Republicans, Tobin refers to him only as "their Speaker of the House" and continues by condemning all Republicans for allowing lobbyists to influence legislation in the House. I'm not certain it is a fair argument to compare Clinton's crimes with those of the entire Republican congress...
...decide to offer some to the fellow revelers sitting around them. Apparently, the spirit of communal property that defined the 1960's is one hallmark of that era that has not survived. I was denied a swig and had to endure the rest of the evening in a painfully sober state...
...constant daily battle, fighting his demons." By the time Farley was providing the voice for the title character in Shrek, an animated film from DreamWorks, studio partner Jeffrey Katzenberg was taking no chances. He put the comic under 24-hour bodyguard during recording to make sure he remained sober. Katzenberg and his associates were at times themselves taking drinks out of Farley's hands. (Based so closely on Farley, Shrek must now be completely reconceived.) The weeks from the end of October appear to have been a monstrous series of alcoholic-and-eating binges. "Around Thanksgiving," says Di Novi...
Said Hall: "I don't think the board wants you all to rush into anything that is unsafe. We do want you to rush into looking at the problem." In this he was supported by the sober-looking crowd at the front of the ballroom. "You look at that," said Barbara Johns, whose 18-year-old daughter Courtney was the first victim identified after the crash, "and you wonder, If these are known safety problems, why aren't they correcting them before people die? That's the answer we'd like--because people we love are still flying...