Word: soberness
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...connection with my [wrestling] teammates and the university.” Frederick E. Dewey ’03 of the Harvard men’s swimming team insists that his shield tattoo, located in a discreet location on his hip, was the product of a “completely sober decision...
...When Perri was sober, he was fine. When he was not, he was not. He was an embarrassment to the town,” she says. “While he was here, he was more drunk than sober. It was not a good image for our families...
...Bill W., as Alcoholics Anonymous members know them, promised to keep each other sober, following Bill W.'s strategy: a simple set of principles--later refined into 12 steps--that would become the foundation of America's self-help culture. Alcoholics, he said, must admit they are powerless over their addiction. They must make amends to all those they have harmed. And they must submit to God--however they define the deity...
...completed, we might as well paint a huge target on their sides because they are sure to be an objective for any ambitious terrorist. Does anyone really think that companies and workers would be naive or dumb enough to work in one of these buildings? I hope that sober minds prevail and New Yorkers build a simple, humble low-rise memorial at ground zero. DOUG LAIDLAW JR. Fremont, Calif...
What on earth has happened to American conservatism? It used to be a reliably dour movement, a sober restraint upon the wishful thinking of mushy-minded liberals. But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy. On the domestic side, there is the sugarplum delusion of endless tax cuts and untrammeled government spending. In foreign policy, there is a wildly idealistic pro-democracy jihad. (Iraq will be the first of many dominoes to fall, it is said...