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Without a Prayer
To Iraq and back, without the bishops’ blessing. Plus more.
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“Edgar Sr., in the early eighties, parlayed an unsuccessful takeover run at an oil company into 20% ownership of DuPont, which was to chemicals what Seagram was to scotch.”
Scotch? Am I to take this that the Canadian Club and VO that I have been drinking all these years is really scotch?
p>Sheesh. br> — Pete Brittain br> Sandpoint, ID /p>Michael Craig replies: Ya got me. I’m a lightweight drinker who doesn’t even know the difference between scotch and whiskey. But if you imbibe of products that used to be owned by the Bronfman family, at least make sure it’s Seagram’s-produced whiskey and not 30-weight Conoco motor oil or whatever the lab boys at DuPont have cooked up to make diapers adhere better and make missiles explode more quietly.
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