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...picture was the one record of the sweaty stampede out of the towers, the one frozen frame to give the horrors on the inside a face and a name. And suddenly everyone wanted a piece of him. There were 40 messages a day from reporters; well wishers sent checks, whiskey, prayers, cigars and a bald-eagle calendar. One particularly aggressive fan, "Judy C. from New Hampshire," wrote almost daily on stationery with pink hearts and drove all the way to New York City from Manchester just to see him in the flesh. Mike's father taped the photograph...
Although few Inner Mongolians speak any English, it is impossible not to understand their hospitality. These hardy nomads are quick to smile?and even quicker to drink. While most ancient Mongol culture has faded away, the greeting of guests with rice whiskey and traditional songs endures. Despite the surrounding desolation, Inner Mongolians manage to scare up impressive quantities of food and drink for visitors. Such feasts are inevitably accompanied by frequent shouts of "gambei!" or "bottoms up!" Rising to the challenge of the toasts is not only good manners, it greatly helps travelers enjoy (or survive) the multiple dishes...
While the food and drink are generous, good shopping in Inner Mongolia is scarce. Aside from dealers offering polished desert stones and ridiculously cheap rice whiskey, there is little more to bring home than memories of the wide open grasslands and the charm of Mongolian nomads and herders. And soon even those delights may be hard to find. Despite the grandeur of the desert landscape, it is impossible not to notice the growing environmental catastrophe. Countless hills and rangelands are giving way to erosion, as millions of sheep and goats eat the sparse vegetation and lay the ground bare...
...arbitrators of cool; our underwear ads were warmly received only in some quarters; life at The Crimson imitated The Real World, surprisingly, with love triangles and people leaving the show; and there was a rumor that I always carried a coke bottle filled with whiskey on Monday and Tuesday nights, during production. That is mostly untrue; when I drank in the building, I always did it in the open, and it was not limited to Mondays and Tuesdays, as it could generally occur any time I expected to be in the building for more than an hour after...
...period,” David W. Black ‘02 “pretty much totally” abstained from touching alcohol or drugs over the Thanksgiving holiday, excepting “a few beers” before his plane departed, a bottle of wine during Thanksgiving dinner, whiskey out of the liquor cabinet every night after his parents went to sleep, a small bottle of Bacardi Limon mixed into a concession-stand Coke during a viewing of Harry Potter on Friday and a $20 bag of marijuana split with a high school friend before a night spent watching...