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The joy of Russia is drinking, and without drinking we cannot be," said Prince Vladimir, ruler of the state of Kievan Rus in the 10th century, as he chose Christianity for the state religion over teetotal Islam. Never has Russia indulged her joy more than over the last five petrodollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Without Tears — and Now Without Booze | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

Another e-mailer conveyed the atmosphere: "The pubs are all packed out, people sipping their pints happily. Nice one, al-Qaeda--you profess to be from a teetotal religion, and you've given the pub trade a massive midweek boost." My sister in the London suburbs looked after a boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quiet Power of the Stoic | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

?It became almost a kind of interactive story,? Pletcher testified in his trial. ?It was actually happening as I wrote it.? He added that the letters were to form the basis of a novel inspired by that great Stallone turkey, ?Assassins? -- and that the money would help him open a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing the Book on Gates Extortion | 3/25/1998 | See Source »

NO BOOZE BILL Overeating, philandering, pseudo inhaling--that's the old Bill Clinton. Now it seems Bill's gone teetotal. Never much of a drinker, last week the President faked sipping wine during two toasts at a U.N. luncheon. A breach of etiquette? No, says Letitia Baldrige, former chief of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 6, 1997 | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

Additional bones of contention were the $40 million of B.G.E.A. money that Franklin, as a board committee chairman, directed toward the Cove, a beautifully appointed Bible-study center in Montreat that is the only brick-and-mortar institution Billy built to outlast him; and Franklin's insistence that the B.G.E.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

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