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This promised to be a summer-long problem. I had always told myself I would never be a regular coffee drinker. I found the black syrup bitter, overly strong, and usually too hot. Plus, who cared if I dozed in class—I rationalized that I clearly needed the sleep, so it was good...
Before this summer, I was a binge drinker. I would avoid coffee like the plague until the day when, say, I had two midterms on one hour of sleep. Then I would down up to 10 cups—as many as needed to stave off sleep for a few more critical hours...
PROMISE A courageous soldier and hard drinker, "Fighting Joe" once openly mused about becoming a dictator, drawing a sarcastic rebuke from Lincoln
...beginning to look a lot like a corporate Christmas. Just take a peek at Santa's list. For Jeff, a C.P.A. who dreams of the open road, St. Nick is bringing a Harley-Davidson beach towel. Steve, a devoted cola drinker, is getting a sweatshirt emblazoned with the Coke trademark. Lara, a young sweet tooth, will find a pair of Hershey overalls under the tree. Dan, a Dr Pepper fan, will get a brand-new refrigerator (price: $529) plastered with his favorite soda's trademark. Indeed, as consumers head to the stores this week for the first official...
...that carried her parents from one raucous engagement to the next: "By my third birthday, I had logged 150,000 miles, occasion for an AP wirephoto captioned: 'She Sees America.' " She also witnessed an endless string of saloons and her parents' behavior in them: "Pat was a two-fisted drinker. Cy was a drunk, charming and good-humored when sober, combative and cold-eyed when drunk." Liquor fueled fights between them, as did their constant lack of money. They also, Cyra recognized later, baited each other with flagrant infidelities: "Pat and Cy competed in sexual conquest as they competed...