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...Augusten Burroughs was driven to drink by Bewitched. "I worshipped Darren Stevens the First," he writes in his new memoir, Dry (St. Martin's; 293 pages). "When he'd come home from work, Samantha would say, 'Darren, would you like me to fix you a drink?' He'd always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the foyer...and say, 'Better make it a double.'" Burroughs would uncap one of his father's liquor bottles, upend it with his hand pressed over the top, then recap it and lick his palm...
Ultimately, unless students have a stronger hand in the shaping of campus policy, success will elude the Harvard administration and satisfaction will elude Harvard students. We know what can work. A keg ban at Harvard-Yale does not work: students drink more hard liquor. Taking a tough-guy stance on alcohol in first-year dorms does not work: it sends them elsewhere. Blaming final clubs does not work: they are free to ignore the warnings...
...sales contracts, machinery and inventory, lenders wouldn't grant him even a small line of credit. So potential customers, he fears, have gone to state-owned companies with better access to capital. "The government sees state enterprises as its sons, so it helps them," Mao says. "Someone else will drink up my market...
After her father died last June, Smolyansky, 28, succeeded him as CEO of NASDAQ-traded Lifeway Foods, whose main product is kefir, a yogurt-like drink. The small firm, based in Morton Grove, Ill., has expanded abroad under Julie Smolyansky, boosting sales 14%, to $12.2 million, in 2002. Lifeway peddles kefir across the U.S., Canada and Eastern Europe, and its powdered kefir starter is popular in Asia, Britain and the Middle East. Smolyansky's next goal is to sell soy-based drinks in Latin America...
...Many young people in Japan feel as I did, which is why the sake industry is struggling. Beer is by far the favored drink, accounting for half of domestic sales of alcoholic drinks. Sake makes up just 9%, down from 17% a decade ago. Active sake breweries, or kura, have dwindled to about 1,200, from 3,500 or so in 1970. It would seem that despite a passionate marriage that historians date back to 3 B.C., the love between Japan and sake is fading...