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Re:Honest People Might Be Dangerous by philwelch on Sunday February 12, 2012 @03:03PM (#3582804)
Lots of people accomplished great things despite heavy, regular use of alcohol: Boris Yeltsin, Winston Churchill, Ulysses S. Grant, Christopher Hitchens, Edgar Allen Poe, Alexander the Great, Ernest Hemingway.
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Re:Honest People Might Be Dangerous by ansgri on Sunday February 12, 2012 @05:11PM (#3583201)
It's sort of weird to find Yeltsin with Alexander the Great and Ernest Hemingway.
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Re:Honest People Might Be Dangerous by philwelch on Monday February 13, 2012 @04:36PM (#3587437)
Perhaps if you only remember the bulk of his presidency, but he shepherded the end of the Soviet Union as much as anyone.
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